Free software "Granola Personal" that can realize energy savings of 15% to 35% just by installing

If installed, free software that can easily reduce power consumption without almost degrading the performance of the PC is "Granola Personal"is. It corresponds to Windows and Linux. For download, installation etc. from the following.

Granola Personal Software Power Management
http://personal.grano.la/

Energy saving effect obtained when Granola is introducedOne example is as follows, if you install Granola and use Microsoft Word, energy consumption is reduced by 13.88% compared to when not installed, 15.22% reduction when using Microsoft Excel, a game If you do, 2.46% reduction is made, and when watching movies, it is 18.32% reduction.


Results after confirming whether performance is dropped even though it is energy saving are as follows.FPSOf the gameHalf Life 2Playingframe rateWhen comparing the performances, it is almost unchanged.


Installation method
When installing on Windows,Official site download pagePlease check "Windows (average paid $ 7.33)" and "Custom amount", enter "0" and e-mail address and click "Purchase".


Click "Get Granola Personal for Windows".


Execute the downloaded EXE file.


Click "Next"


Please check and click "Next"


Click "Next"


Click "Install"


Click "Finish"


Once installation is complete, you can reduce annual power consumption when using Granola Personal · Electricity rate in the US · CO 2 · CPU power consumption and how many people installing Granola will reduce CO 2 A screen showing whether it corresponds to the tree of the tree is displayed. Since it is not necessary to see this screen after installation ...


Click "×" in the upper right.


Granola Personal will reside in the task tray.


After installing Granola, since the power consumption is reduced as necessary so that the performance does not change, it is not necessary to change the setting in particular, but if you set the setting to save energy or set Granola Personal To do this, right-click the icon in the task tray and click "Settings".


If you want to further set energy saving, on the left side, click on the right side if you want to set Granola Personal not installed, click "OK". It is said that the operation becomes heavier when setting it to further save energy.