Cool and Quiet Not Working With Opteron 148 and Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe

[ramuman]

I have an 148 on a A8N-SLI Deluxe with the 1015 BIOS and CNQ is not working for me. I have the processor driver installed, its enabled in BIOS, and minimal power management is choosen in Windows.

I've tried it at stock (all auto, 200x11=2.2 @1.4V) and with my 24/7 overclock of 255x11=2.8 @1.35V. I specifically picked an FSB overclock because when I had the X2, I tried an FSB overclock with CNQ briefly and it worked fine, just changing voltage and multiplier.

Weird thing was I had a Venice 3200 and X2 in this same board and Cool and Quiet worked for both of them, but no luck with this Opty. All other hardware has remained unchanged.

I don't have the greatest cooling and my fans are thermally controlled by the mobo so I could quiet it down more if this worked.

Any thoughts? Not sure if its a CPU or Mobo issue.

 

[lopri]

Who buys an Opteron 148 (I'm assuming you're talking about Socket 939) to enable CNQ?

Edit: Sorry, no offense. Yeah OC is OC, CNQ is CNQ. No clue on your situation though.

 

[dguy6789]

Do not use cool and quiet if you do not absolutely need it. I have not done any indepth research with it, but I have run a few brief tests where having cool and quiet on vs off had some serious performance impacts.

For example: in Zero Hour, the framerate in the Generals Challenge mode where it shows the two generals and introduces them would be very choppy with cool and quiet enabled and perfect with it disabled.

Another example: In Halo PC, with cool and quiet on, the ingame cinematics would still run at the locked 30fps, but they would go very slow. NOT dropping framerate, but the movie itself would slow down in speed. The pillar of autumn cut scene would take 30+ minutes.. This would not happen with Cool and Quiet off.

Someone else with Halo PC should try it out.

 

[Rustler]

I don't use CNQ with my Asus it runs cool enough not to worry about the temps. Idles a 31-33C loaded 36-40C.

 

[ramuman]

Originally posted by: lopri
Who buys an Opteron 148 (I'm assuming you're talking about Socket 939) to enable CNQ?

Edit: Sorry, no offense. Yeah OC is OC, CNQ is CNQ. No clue on your situation though.

Non taken, but the thing is my computer is often on 24/7 and the less power it consumes and the less heat it puts out when idle the better. As I mentioned, I used an FSB OC and the highest multiplier so I could use CnQ if possible.

However, if there is much of a performance hit, I don't want to bother. Its ~39-40C idle and ~50C load. The fans are setup to goto full speed past 51C.

I'll just leave it off.

 

[Furen]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Do not use cool and quiet if you do not absolutely need it. I have not done any indepth research with it, but I have run a few brief tests where having cool and quiet on vs off had some serious performance impacts.

I would say that you should use CnQ unless you experience problems, instead.

I like using RMclock instead of the original cool and quiet, though. You can find it here.