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From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
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Subject: Re: for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?
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* Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@gmail.com> [1236 13:36]:
> Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power?
> 
> I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in
> FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything.
>   So much so that the loud "emergency" fan kicks on often to cool the
> CPU, even when the computer is doing nothing at all.
> 
> I'm using the newest FreeBSD 5.3 release, but had this same problem with 4.10.
> 
> Any advice?  Anything I can put in the kernel or boot-scripts to tell
> this Centrino to take it easy?

Install sysutils/estctrl, works for me.

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