xbdestroya
Member
Cool n Quiet -
Well, after I bought my chip (A64 2800 @ 2 GHz), this started intriguing me quite a bit, because I run in an Antec Aria case and temps get up there. I installed the drivers and everything, but it would never kick in with my board, I guess because I use a Zalman with a fan controller, and so the board reads me as not having any fan at all to throttle.
Moving on, then I know there are some people in the opposite boat as me, who DO have Cool n Quiet, or did, and disabled it because it didn't ever let up, and inhibited their benches, gaming, overclocks, whatever.
Well I have found the solution for us all! Of course, some of you may already know about this, or other similar programs, but if not, I highly recommend the RightMark CPU Clock 1.3 utility.
With this, you can manually, from Windows in a very simple app, dynamically adjust your voltage and CPU multiplier, down to it's minimum and up to it's maximum. Right now I've got my system at 5x at 1.1v, just because I know that's what Cool n Quiet WOULD have dropped it to, but I could go as low as x4 and 0.8v if I wanted. With the push of a button I can go straight back to my full 9x multi and 1.5v setting, plus it gives you a screen where you can monitor all this if you like.
Anyway, check it out if you want. Again, I know this won't be useful to everybody, but if it helps even one person, there ya go...
Running 'Cool n Quiet' (by my own hand) I drop CPU temps about 15C, chop ~40 Watts off the power useage, and improve the ambient case and mobo temps inside my Aria. When all I'm doing is surfing, it just makes me love my A64 all the more.
Well, after I bought my chip (A64 2800 @ 2 GHz), this started intriguing me quite a bit, because I run in an Antec Aria case and temps get up there. I installed the drivers and everything, but it would never kick in with my board, I guess because I use a Zalman with a fan controller, and so the board reads me as not having any fan at all to throttle.
Moving on, then I know there are some people in the opposite boat as me, who DO have Cool n Quiet, or did, and disabled it because it didn't ever let up, and inhibited their benches, gaming, overclocks, whatever.
Well I have found the solution for us all! Of course, some of you may already know about this, or other similar programs, but if not, I highly recommend the RightMark CPU Clock 1.3 utility.
With this, you can manually, from Windows in a very simple app, dynamically adjust your voltage and CPU multiplier, down to it's minimum and up to it's maximum. Right now I've got my system at 5x at 1.1v, just because I know that's what Cool n Quiet WOULD have dropped it to, but I could go as low as x4 and 0.8v if I wanted. With the push of a button I can go straight back to my full 9x multi and 1.5v setting, plus it gives you a screen where you can monitor all this if you like.
Anyway, check it out if you want. Again, I know this won't be useful to everybody, but if it helps even one person, there ya go...
Running 'Cool n Quiet' (by my own hand) I drop CPU temps about 15C, chop ~40 Watts off the power useage, and improve the ambient case and mobo temps inside my Aria. When all I'm doing is surfing, it just makes me love my A64 all the more.
