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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: PGS4038 on January 29, 2011, 11:34:23 am

Title: P55a-UD3 i5 Win7 64 Power saving strategy?
Post by: PGS4038 on January 29, 2011, 11:34:23 am

Hi, I'm a newbie to this forum

I've just built a new PC and would like to which power-saving utilitiy to use. The board comes with Gigabyte's Energy saver 2 and windoze has it's own power saving system.
any thoughts?
I'm not a gamer and the pc is on all day for skype etc.
thanks in advance for any "illumination"

Title: Re: P55a-UD3 i5 Win7 64 Power saving strategy?
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 29, 2011, 12:19:33 pm

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Personally I don't like any of these free programs that comes with the motherboards, of any make not just Gigabyte. They tend to cause more problems than they cure.

The BIOS and Windows both have enough energy saving settings to bury you so I hardly think more is necessary. One word of warning though a lot of problems seem to stem from these "green" settings so use with caution.

I would advise not using the motherboard disk for the drivers needed but download them direct from the website as they will be more up to date.