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I originally posted this in the Hotdeals section where one guy went off and said the up and down temp swing of this software cooler is bad for Athlons. But I have been using it for a few weeks now without any problems, and usually hardly any swing in temperature except under very CPU intensive activities where my T-bird would go from 39C to around 50C. I didn't have any lockups or other problems, in fact it was way less buggy than Motherboard Monitor, which also displays temp in the system tray.
I just switched to a 1400XP which I run at 2100XP speed. Now the temp swings are more dramatic. Most of the time when doing normal everyday stuff, the temp is around 37C. When stressed, usually because I am running some benchmarks or burn in stuff, it goes to 58C. So the swing with the XP is twice as big. However, 90% of the time it stays around the low end of this scale. So it isn't swinging wildly up and down.
Personally I think the CPU can handle the up and down, because otherwise AMD would recommend you never turn the computer off, because you are going to get an incredibly dramatic change every time you turn it on.
http://vcool.occludo.net/
I originally posted this in the Hotdeals section where one guy went off and said the up and down temp swing of this software cooler is bad for Athlons. But I have been using it for a few weeks now without any problems, and usually hardly any swing in temperature except under very CPU intensive activities where my T-bird would go from 39C to around 50C. I didn't have any lockups or other problems, in fact it was way less buggy than Motherboard Monitor, which also displays temp in the system tray.
I just switched to a 1400XP which I run at 2100XP speed. Now the temp swings are more dramatic. Most of the time when doing normal everyday stuff, the temp is around 37C. When stressed, usually because I am running some benchmarks or burn in stuff, it goes to 58C. So the swing with the XP is twice as big. However, 90% of the time it stays around the low end of this scale. So it isn't swinging wildly up and down.
Personally I think the CPU can handle the up and down, because otherwise AMD would recommend you never turn the computer off, because you are going to get an incredibly dramatic change every time you turn it on.
