downclocking

For my i5-750 it's downclocking from 3. 5GHz to 1. 5GHz at idle, and increments in between as well when the processor is not fully loaded.

Granola Scales Your CPU For Energy Savings | Lifehacker Australia 2010

For my i5-750 it's downclocking from 3.5GHz to 1.5GHz at idle, and increments in between as well when the processor is not fully loaded.

Granola Scales Your CPU For Energy Savings | Lifehacker Australia 2010

LITTLE chip can take these standard signals and, instead of downclocking the A15 when the OS asks for less horsepower, it simply moves the workload onto the A7 cores.

Ars Technica WIRED 2011

LITTLE chip can take these standard signals and, instead of downclocking the A15 when the OS asks for less horsepower, it simply moves the workload onto the A7 cores.

Ars Technica WIRED 2011

LITTLE chip can take these standard signals and, instead of downclocking the A15 when the OS asks for less horsepower, it simply moves the workload onto the A7 cores.

Wired Top Stories Jon Stokes 2011

In this case, as far as I know, the only thing you can do is severely downclocking your core and memory in order to get more stability, but still ... there are crashes (less often though ...)

News Tom's Hardware US 2010

A lot of people had success by setting the voltage higher, or downclocking the core and memory for more stability.

News Tom's Hardware US 2010

Notably if you have eDP ( "embedded DisplayPort" - I think mainly a feature you'd find on a new imac), in which case it now hopefully works, but more commonly if you saw the flickering on your laptop panel due to LVDS downclocking (which saves power, but is now disabled by default until that thing is resolved).

Linux.com :: Features 2010

The downclocking or underclocking was also tested in this review.

OCTools 2010

The downclocking or underclocking was also tested in this review.

OCTools 2010