Must useless article ever? - You decide

[Lonyo]

PC Stats decided to underclock a 4000+, something not too strange, to see if it could be run quietly.

There's a few flaws with this whole idea for an article, or at least what they did:
Lets stick in a high end graphics cards, whith noisy fan (X800XT).
Lets NOT stick it in an actual case (which would provide a real life situation)
Lets use a 130nm processor rather than the much cooler 90nm Venice cores.
Lets test things like 3D Apps and not really general usage stuff, or audio applications.

I am all for underclocking, I plan on using my current Mobile XP in a TV box when I get a new PC, and underclock it to reduce temps and lot and hopefully run with the minimum number of fans, but I'm also going to do things like probably use a passive or lowpwer graphics cards.
The things they did with their system though just confuse me.
If you are going for that kind of experiment, at least do it properly.



(PS: Anyone here tried underclocking? Was it able to run passively? etc)

 

[Vegitto]

I don't think that that article is useless. I like it 😀.

 

[sandorski]

It could have been better, but the data and charts can be useful. Most underclockers are making MultiMedia Playback boxes and, as you mention, don't need the power of an 850XT. So, yes, they shoiuld have used more appropriate video.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
PC Stats decided to underclock a 4000+, something not too strange, to see if it could be run quietly.

There's a few flaws with this whole idea for an article, or at least what they did:
Lets stick in a high end graphics cards, whith noisy fan (X800XT).
Lets NOT stick it in an actual case (which would provide a real life situation)
Lets use a 130nm processor rather than the much cooler 90nm Venice cores.
Lets test things like 3D Apps and not really general usage stuff, or audio applications.

I am all for underclocking, I plan on using my current Mobile XP in a TV box when I get a new PC, and underclock it to reduce temps and lot and hopefully run with the minimum number of fans, but I'm also going to do things like probably use a passive or lowpwer graphics cards.
The things they did with their system though just confuse me.
If you are going for that kind of experiment, at least do it properly.



(PS: Anyone here tried underclocking? Was it able to run passively? etc)

My Winchester ran 30 degrees C with the retail heatsink/fan at low speed at 1.125 GHz on 1.2 volts. My Neo2 doesn't seem to recognize that my Venice supports Cool 'n' Quiet... but it supposedly idles around 36 C at 2.6 GHz anyway.

*EDIT* Actually Core Center is reporting 33 degrees C right now...