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AMD Cool & Quiet Enabled

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I haven't bothered trying it out because I run E@H all the time as well. Plus I don't pay the electric bill. 😀
 
Originally posted by: ones3k
When i first built my system i played around with cool and quiet, but i didnt like it. The system felt a little less responsive to me. I performed this test:

I made a huge jpg file 4000x4000 or something. I then zoomed way in on that jpeg with both cool and quiet enabled and disabled. I compared the times required to zoom, and without cool and quiet they were significantly better. With cool and quiet the system takes some time to decide to increase its clockspeed, this time effected my jpeg zoom times. I keep it off.
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I have a utility with my MSI mainboard called CoolerXP. I think the way these utilities work is they take up all the CPU idle cycles away from windows, and you'll notice the CPU utilization on these programs is 100%, so I guess it "cools" the processor by managing the CPU's resources. Any "throttling" of the fan speed would have to be done through BIOS options if you have them, I believe... But, that's why the system may seem less responsive, because the program takes up all your idle CPU cycles.

BFonnes
 
I use it via powernowd on linux. It scales from 800mhz to full speed (this is an 3500) with no noticable lag. Ut2004, hl2, guild wars, etc. No issues.
 
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