Re: sped up desktop effects

1jam wrote:

My desktop and windows draw WAY smoother and faster now.
The few 3d games that I play are smoother as well. Who knew freq scaling
could be so unresponsive? well not me, i never guessed.

For laptop users it's a good thing if the CPU only speeds up for
important stuff, not eye candy.

Does your machine have a GPU or integrated graphics? Desktop or laptop?

I'd expect a 'smart' powersaving scheme on a laptop to transfer as much
as possible of the load of drawing the eye candy onto the GPU (which,
even on full power uses a lot less than the CPU) and keep the CPU
clocked down unless there are lots of user tasks looking for cycles.


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