Asus A7M266-D, Dual AMDs and CPU Throttling?!?!

[jamesbond007]

Hey guys. I just got my new A7M266-D up and running tonight. While I was in the BIOS, I noticed a feature called CPU Throttling...now I've never heard it phrased like that for AMDs...I thought the motherboard would just simply shutdown. Apparently, when the CPU(s) hits 85C, the board will throttle the CPU down. I thought this was only available on the P4s!

Has anyone seen or tested this feature? I don't feel like being a guinea pig with all this expensive equipment.

Thanks for the input!

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BTW, I'm using BIOS version 1008, which came pre-installed.
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[Peter]

CPU throttling is a feature implemented by a chain of things, CPU temperature probe plus a thermal monitor chip plus a chipset that can put the "throttling" brakes onto the CPU(s). It can be done with CPUs that don't have an internal probe, no problem there. As long as the chipset can do the throttling, you're set.

The auto-throttling feature's been in chipsets for ages. Intel PIIX4 south bridge had it, which means we're talking late Pentium days.

 

[Vette73]

Yea I saw that on my A7M266-D. I turned it on, BUT set it real high, that way if I was doing something CPU intensive, it would not slow me down, BUT if the cpu fan quit it would slow it down or tell me.

 

[jamesbond007]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[LazyBastard]

That's something that Asus has done themselves for their AMD motherboards. It's not available for other AMD motherboards as far as I know. Check out Asus's web site.