undervolting

They were also one of the first motherboard manufacturers to enable undervolting.

This process is called undervolting.

Undervolting and underclocking generally require motherboard support.

Below a certain limit the processor will not function correctly, although undervolting too far does not typically lead to permanent hardware damage.

Reduced electrical power consumption, especially when combined with undervolting (i.e., reducing the component's voltage below the nominal).

The heat produced by CPUs can be further reduced by undervolting, underclocking or both.

Undervolting is used for quiet systems, as less cooling is needed because of the reduction of heat production, allowing noisy fans to be omitted.

Undervolting is the practice of running the CPU or any other component with voltages below the device specifications.

Undervolting and underclocking can also be used with chipsets and GPUs.

(Undervolting too far does not typically lead to hardware damage, though in worst-case scenarios, program or system files can be corrupted)

Undervolting is a process of determining the lowest voltage at which a CPU can remain stable at a given clock speed.

Reducing the clock rate or undervolting usually reduces energy consumption; it is also possible to undervolt the microprocessor while keeping the clock rate the same.

Conversely, the overclocker may decide to decrease the chip voltage while overclocking (a process known as undervolting), to reduce heat emissions while performance remains optimal.

Undervolting is reducing the voltage of a component, usually the processor, reducing temperature and cooling requirements, and possibly allowing a fan to be omitted.

Underclocking is almost always involved in the latter stages of Undervolting which seeks to find the highest clock speed that a processor will stably operate at a given voltage.

Underclocking can be done for the same effect, however this reduces performance and is not as effective as undervolting; all the same, underclocking may allow further undervolting.

Dynamic voltage scaling to increase voltage is known as overvolting; dynamic voltage scaling to decrease voltage is known as undervolting .

Undervolting is done in order to conserve power, particularly in laptops and other mobile devices, where energy comes from a battery and thus is limited, or in rare cases, to increase reliability.

Underclocking and undervolting are usually attempted if a system needs to operate silently (such as a multimedia player), but higher performance is desired than is offered by a given processor manufacturer's low-voltage offerings.