Patent ID: 7480587
Filing Date: 2009-01-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: measuring a temperature of a processing component on a motherboard and a temperature of one or more zones of the motherboard; determining if the temperature of the processing component and the one or more zones of the motherboard is within a performance margining range of the processing component and the one or more zones of the motherboard; comparing the temperature of the processing component to a predetermined temperature limit for the processing component; comparing the temperature of the one or more zones of the motherboard to a predetermined temperature limit for a respective zone of the motherboard; comparing the temperature of a component of a zone of the motherboard to a predetermined temperature limit for the component of the zone of the motherboard; maximizing a processing speed of the processing component automatically based on the performance margining range; and maintaining the processing speed of the processing component at the current processing speed when the measured temperature of the processing component is at least above the predetermined temperature limit of the processing component, the temperature of the one or more zones of the motherboard is at least above the predetermined temperature limit of the respective zone of the motherboard, the temperature of the component of the zone of the motherboard is at least above the predetermined temperature limit of the component of the zone of the motherboard.