Rain and Athlon Tbird

[jugornot]

Just got my new tbird setup and while I was waiting for my mc462 to show up I thought I would play around with it a bit and not fry it. Well anyway using a volcano II, I noticed very little variance on the chip temp. From the coolest at 38c and hottest at 48c. I have been using rain 2.0 for quite a while for lowering the idle temps on my previous p3s one oc to 620 the other oc'ed to 945. Playing around tonight I disabled rain and the temp dropped all the way to 24c. Is this the case with the tbirds? Is rain no longer required? CPU usage is at a steady 90% while I am typing right now and nothing els going on. Any of you super geeks know whats going on?

 

[Dundain]

Rain does NOT work on Athlon or Duron processers! For me all its done is increase temperatures, dont use it. CPUIdle is supposed to work with Athlon/Duron processers, but I havent really had a chance to test that yet but I should be able to by the end of the week. There is also some editing you can do with the motherboard registers to automatically drop temperatures.