Updated Athlon 64 Processor Driver from AMD

[mamisano]

Version 1.1.0.1 released January 2004. Enables Quiet-n-Cool technology.

AMD Download Site

I have it installed on my current A64 / Abit rig. Processor runs at 800Mhz during low usage.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Thanx

 

[MadRat]

Thats actually pretty awesome for people that want cool-n-quiet systems!

 

[CyGoR]

Mamisano, how is the motherboard? Thinking about buying one. I like the price and it's full featured.. Only, the fans from the Otes and the chipset are those 40mm noisy fans? Nice to hear that 'Cool and quiet' works on the abit/a64 combo

 

[mamisano]

I like it a lot... The board has a FanEQ application built into the Bios. You can set the fans (CPU, Northbridge, OTES) to change speed according to the temperature, all independantly. This can be done in the BIOS or via a Windows Application. The OTES Fan is loudest of the 3, and it gets nice and quiet using the FanEQ

 

[Nyati13]

I'm using the Cool-n-Quiet function right now, when web-browsing this thing stays at 800MHz all the time, and runs at 32C (case temp of 30C).

 

[MadRat]

What, no TA SETI??

 

[Dman877]

How can you tell what speed the cpu is at? I use W2K and just downloaded the newest w2k driver (it's from september). Anyway, everything I check says the cpu is at 2000 mhz (used 3dmark and sisoft to check, do I need a realtime updating program like mbm to check this?).

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Use CPU-z to check the clockspeed.

 

[mamisano]

You also need to enable "Minimal Power Management" under the power management options.

I think it is still a little broken. Once it goes to 800Mhz, even CPU-Z doesn't show it going any higher....Even though when using the computer it does not feel like it stays there. Even when running Distributed.net or other clients, speed listed at 800Mhz.

Might have to try SuperPi to check.

 

[Nyati13]

It depends on when the cpu-checking happens. If the program you're using checks the CPU speed first, and then begins to run a load, the CPU will read as 800MHz (because it was checked at idle), but be running at 2GHz. The Asus board has a CPU-checker that runs realtime, and it will show the CPU speeding up under load, and cutting back to 800MHz when not loaded.

Jeremy

 

[Markfw]

I think it was the relase notes that I read, that if the CPU was at 100% when it was checking, it wouldn't speed up. 99% OK, 100% no. Looks like a bug. I am going to turn mine off. It never gets above 43c at 100%, and I can't hear it anyway, and I don't care about the 50 cents in electricity a month diff.

 

[mamisano]

It's a bug in Windows, not with the driver...