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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downclock.

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Examples

  • I'm monitoring the clock speed, and yeah, what it does is essential what Vista did with power saving mode on, it downclocks the processor to the lowest step.

    Granola Scales Your CPU For Energy Savings | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • I'm monitoring the clock speed, and yeah, what it does is essential what Vista did with power saving mode on, it downclocks the processor to the lowest step.

    Granola Scales Your CPU For Energy Savings | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Why not just make a decent GPU that downclocks to IGP level when its not needed.

    techPowerUp! btarunr 2010

  • Turbo Core, which automatically downclocks half the cores in order to provide a little extra speed (up to 500MHz more) to the other three.

    Engadget Vladislav Savov 2010

  • When a graphics card downclocks itself (overclockers will know what I'm talking about) this is exactly what happens.

    News Tom's Hardware US 2010

  • Why not just make a decent GPU that downclocks to IGP level when its not needed.

    techPowerUp! 2010

  • In the real world, Cool n 'Quiet 3.0 simply downclocks the Phenom II to 800MHz when idling (with balanced power settings enabled in Vista) compared with a downclock of 1300MHz on the Phenom

    The Inquirer 2009

  • And how do I turn of the fact the proccesor downclocks when not at load.

    The Tech Report: News 2009

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