Power Setting Desktop PC Performance or Balamced


  1. fergiet
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    Power Setting Desktop PC Performance or Balamced


    Hi Folks

    Just wondered what is best ..... Power on High Performance or Balanced?

    What do you do & why ?

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  3. whs
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    I have high performance. But whether that really does anything I don't know.
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  4. Bare Foot Kid
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    whs said:
    I have high performance. But whether that really does anything I don't know.

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  6. Sardonicus
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    My PC, which is used as a HTPC, using 2 Hauppauge 2250 cards, sometimes recording 4 HD transport streams at once, doesn't hiccup, running on balanced power.

    Many modern motherboards use power phasing.
    I really don't know what's controlling the power, though, the OS or the motherboard.
    When I've set it to High Performance in the past, I didn't notice a difference.
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