Some time ago I've bought a windows desktop with ASUS EPU6 because I wanted my desktop to be extra quiet. It is quiet indeed, but it's done by a special GUI utility, where one should compromise first between noise and CPU speed. That utility runs on startup, remembers its last setting, and hides itself, so theoretically there's nothing wrong with it. Except that often the setting are not remembered/recovered, and the desktop begins to makes noise until I run and setup that utility manually.

Here's the culprit, ="https://blogs.perl.org/users/dmitry_karasik/assets_c/2012/01/epu6…