Cool N Quiet Question

[RobDMB]

I just built my first amd system and have cool n quiet enabled in the bios. When i open a utility to monitor the speed of the processor I do not see it changing according to usage. It stays at full speed at all times. I was wondering if to have cool n quiet enabled if you have to change anything in windows power settings? thanks, rob

 

[timecop67]

Yes to get it throttle correctly I had to go to Power Options in the control panel and select minimal power managment. For my AX8 motherboard this did the trick and now system runs cooler. Also don't forget your AMD Cool and Quiet Software drivers. For Windows XP 64bit it is a different program than regular XP.

 

[HO]

And, if your system starts puking all over itself, disable it. There are many people who have bad experiences with CnQ.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: HO
And, if your system starts puking all over itself, disable it. There are many people who have bad experiences with CnQ.

Crap, that why I'm looking up threads on CNQ!

 

[Unkno]

well, the problem that i have for CnQ is that it will not increase the throttle voltage if you had increased the fsb and voltage in the bios. This means that when throttled at stock, it runs at 1.1V 200x10 but when it's overclocked, the voltage stays at 1.1V but the fsb is (for example) 260x10. For those that don't know much about overclocks, this shows that at 260x10, your chip is most likely not stable at 1.1V and you would get lock-ups usually when exiting an intensive application.

 

[sandeep108]

I did try a bit of overclocking (stock voltage) with cnq enabled. It did seems to work ok, maybe just a bit jerky at times, but no lockups. It did help in keeping the temps down though for normal usage. But Asus cnq display did show voltage being increased from 1.075 to 1.375. But it would not show the correct MHz.

 

[RHITee05]

Screw regular CnQ, I was never able to get it to work with my Neo2 (probably just the mobo, but still). Get RMClock. It's a freeware utility that does the same thing as CnQ with a few extra bells and whistles. It also works much better for OCing, because you can specify voltage and mult for both min and max cases. After that, it works just like CnQ and throttles up/down your CPU (including intermediate states, another nice touch) with load, and you can adjust the aggressiveness for power v. performance. I love it, and I've never had any problems.

I did have a little trouble getting the new 2.0 version working, but I managed to find the older 1.4 which is great. Again, that's probably just some quirk with my particular setup.

 

[Pederv]

Cool-n-Quiet works fine on my system. I have it slightly over clocked and have the voltage set at +3.3% so even when CNQ kicks in it's still over volted.

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: RHITee05
Get RMClock.

:thumbsup:

 

[5t3v0]

I have CnQ working fine on my Epox. I have vcore set in the BIOS at 1.55v and the default x9 multiplier. CnQ lowers this to x5 and 1.25v when its idle. Under load it goes right back to where it should be. It's a nice feature to get around my idle overvolting which can be as much as 0.03v. I've heard that CnQ causes problems if you've lowered the multiplier as part of your OC. Then it changes back to the max multi under load. RMClock will fix this I believe.

 

[PingSpike]

Also, I believe you need to install the CPU driver in order for it to work properly. That may be the OPs problem.