Time-controlled cpu-throttling

[blackdot]

I'm rendering quite a few pictures on 2 computers for a few days now. The machines are working stable, although their temperature is medium to high. Not to risk anything, i want to give them a little brake once in a while, just to chill out... Thats why i'm looking for a program that gives me the possibility to throttle cpu for a certain time, time-controlled, so i need't to be around.

I thought I can throttle the cpu with a powerplan which allows only a certain max of cpu-usage... so... anybody know a programm to switch timecontrolled between power-plans?

 

[mickey megabyte]

maybe the built-in windows task scheduler can help?

check out this tutorial: How to Create a Automated Task that Runs at a Set Time in Windows 7

i don't know what command/script you'll need to switch power profiles, but i'm sure somebody else here does.

 

[blackdot]

i've found a solution with the taskscheduler and powerplan shortcuts: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/21990-power-plan-create-shortcut-change-power-plan.html .

 

[mickey megabyte]

ah, well done - you can normally find the answer somewhere amongst Brink's legendary tutorials.

did you manage to integrate it ok with the task scheduler?

 

[blackdot]

did you manage to integrate it ok with the task scheduler?

Yes. the shourtcuts arent really necessary.

In the task manager one needs to create a new task, which opens a program: powercfg.exe . for the attributes you have to type "/setactive [powerscheme-GUID]".

and the powerscheme-guid (long row of numbers) you want, you get from cmd>'powercfg.exe -list' .

voila ^^.

 

[mickey megabyte]

easy when you know how!