Thread: Saving battery power with underclocking, low voltage etc.
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2010-04-10 , 16:55
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Originally Posted by sadfist View Post
What are the risks of undervolting? Obviously there will be stability issues if the CPU isn't getting enough juice but is there any risk of damage to the CPU, etc.?
My understanding is that undervolting will not damage the CPU. the problems comes in the form of errors occuring and this causing other knock-on issues; e.g. memory and data corruption due to a faultering CPU
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