Cooln'Quiet not cool?

[Gnoad]

I just decided to finally enable Cool n Quiet to see if it would work and if temps would be lowered during inactivity. So I enable it in my bios, come back into windows, and my idle temps are now 7-8 degrees(celsius) hotter! Under load, I still only went up a few degrees so that was normal, but I let it sit for hours and it was just running hotter idle. I checked bios temps, temps in corecenter (which I know are wrong and display too high, but it still was 8 degrees hotter anyways), and temps on mbm5. I did also install the driver from the amd website that enables cool n quiet. I went back to the bios and turned it off, and sure enough, Im back at normal temps. This ever happen to anyone else? And why would cool n quiet raise my temps? Kinda counter productive....

 

[dguy6789]

Think of cool/quiet as more of a quiet then cool. What it does is, it drops cpu clock, and cpu voltage, but also drops fan speed(which negates any temp drops from the first 2).

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Gnoad
I just decided to finally enable Cool n Quiet to see if it would work and if temps would be lowered during inactivity. So I enable it in my bios, come back into windows, and my idle temps are now 7-8 degrees(celsius) hotter! Under load, I still only went up a few degrees so that was normal, but I let it sit for hours and it was just running hotter idle. I checked bios temps, temps in corecenter (which I know are wrong and display too high, but it still was 8 degrees hotter anyways), and temps on mbm5. I did also install the driver from the amd website that enables cool n quiet. I went back to the bios and turned it off, and sure enough, Im back at normal temps. This ever happen to anyone else? And why would cool n quiet raise my temps? Kinda counter productive....

did you install the AMD cool & quiet cpu driver??

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Proce...0_182_871_9706,00.html

 

[Gnoad]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: Gnoad
I just decided to finally enable Cool n Quiet to see if it would work and if temps would be lowered during inactivity. So I enable it in my bios, come back into windows, and my idle temps are now 7-8 degrees(celsius) hotter! Under load, I still only went up a few degrees so that was normal, but I let it sit for hours and it was just running hotter idle. I checked bios temps, temps in corecenter (which I know are wrong and display too high, but it still was 8 degrees hotter anyways), and temps on mbm5. I did also install the driver from the amd website that enables cool n quiet. I went back to the bios and turned it off, and sure enough, Im back at normal temps. This ever happen to anyone else? And why would cool n quiet raise my temps? Kinda counter productive....

did you install the AMD cool & quiet cpu driver??

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Proce...0_182_871_9706,00.html

 

[Gnoad]

ok, I just did some more fiddling with my bios and amazingly cool n quiet is runing at normal temps now, so it must be something else. Back to the bios....

edit: looks like the culprit is actually a setting between "fast" and "turbo". Odd thing is, turbo doesn't change anything. Voltages, clock speed, ram timings, all the same as "fast". I;ve benchmarked it, and I get the same results too. Anyone have an idea as why turbo runs hotter?

 

[Budman]

did you go into control panel > power option & set your power scheme to Minimal power management? You need to set it to that for cool & quiet to work.

 

[Gnoad]

Oh, I didnt know that, thanks for the info.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Think of cool/quiet as more of a quiet then cool. What it does is, it drops cpu clock, and cpu voltage, but also drops fan speed(which negates any temp drops from the first 2).

C'n'Q does not control fan speeds. The retail A64 fan uses a thermistor to run at variable speeds. To run any other fan at variable speeed you need a motherboard that uses a proprietary fan control system such as Asus' Q-Fan.