Make you pc more energy efficient with free program and it calculates your usage

Poppycat

Firstly I dont take credit for this as it was posted HERE by murpen If you like it please give him credit

However it looks an interesting free program to optimize your pc to be more energy efficent. It also tells you how much energy some parts of your pc are running at see below

You can download it HERE Its 2.5mb in size. If you like it give credit to the above poster HERE Thanks

I am just trying it out at mo.

vultura

An interesting idea.

Shame it only works on Windows XP.

Poppycat

Argh yes it is. I am saving according to program 17 watts, and I already had power saving set to disable screen, hd etc

UniqueEarthling

Thanks. I was only using 78W unoptimised and now I'm using 57W ... I suppose it all helps

UniqueEarthling

Don't see me saving many trees though :eek:

Poppycat

I hope it works if nothing else it does make you think. It does state correct watts for my monitor too, I wonder if they get that infro from the monitor XP profile

Poppycat

It may save the bill payer a bit and also go a very small way to save the planets resources every little helps, so Tesco's keeps saying

UniqueEarthling wrote:

Don't see me saving many trees though :eek:

UniqueEarthling

I think it just tweaks your power management settings (like when the monitor goes off, when the hard drives shut down, etc)

vultura

Al_Mac wrote:

Call me stupid, but how does it save?

Quote from site - By adjusting the power mode settings our advanced algorithms will predict how much you will save based on past PC usage and statistical data. Every time LocalCooling saves power by either turning of your screen, putting your hard drive to sleep when not used or shutting down your PC when you are away your savings stats will start to grow.

Edit: UniqueEarthling beat me to it.

Poppycat

Yes it tweaks it. Just put it on another pc, core 2 certainly less power hungry in terms of energy than my old Intel 1.5ghz

vultura

Poppycat wrote:

Yes it tweaks it. Just put it on another pc, core 2 certainly less power hungry in terms of energy than my old Intel 1.5ghz

Your old processor will not have Speedstep, where the later Dual-Core and new Core 2 Duo series do.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/30/intel_core2duo_glossary/