powernow on amd64

I'd say enable CnQ and you might not even know your system is on :-) I have
it running (3200 Winchester on Asus A8V, Antec 2650BWE with a Sonata PSU)
and the first couple of days I had to look to see if it was on because I
accidentally turned it off twice when I'd gone away for a few minutes,
forgot I'd left it on. Compared to my previous system (same case, PSU but
P4P800 with a 2.6C P4, stock cooler with Asus Q-Fan at lowest setting) it is
virtually silent. I run about 70% of the time at 1000, the response time to
full speed when it's needed it almost instantaneous. It's a heck of a lot
faster to respond than SpeedStep on my laptop at work. I'm impressed, it's a
good feature. Heat kills semi-conductors so the less heat they endure the
longer they last.

"Vermyndax" wrote in message
...
With Cool'n'Quiet disabled in my BIOS, the CPU temp runs at about
105-111'F. The fan noise doesn't bother me... I'm using a stock cooler
that came in the Athlon retail package and an Antec P160 case.
Honestly, the fan noise is less than the p3-733 sitting next to me.

--JM

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

It makes a huge difference, 99% of the time the CPU will be running at
it's lowest clock speed which reduces the power enough so that the CPU
fan
isn't needed.

"zzipper" wrote in message
. ..
I'd say enable CnQ and you might not even know your system is on :-) I
have it running (3200 Winchester on Asus A8V, Antec 2650BWE with a Sonata
PSU) and the first couple of days I had to look to see if it was on
because I accidentally turned it off twice when I'd gone away for a few
minutes, forgot I'd left it on. Compared to my previous system (same case,
PSU but P4P800 with a 2.6C P4, stock cooler with Asus Q-Fan at lowest
setting) it is virtually silent. I run about 70% of the time at 1000, the
response time to full speed when it's needed it almost instantaneous. It's
a heck of a lot faster to respond than SpeedStep on my laptop at work. I'm
impressed, it's a good feature. Heat kills semi-conductors so the less
heat they endure the longer they last.


I agree. I have yet tofind a reason to not have it enabled. The specifics
are on AMD's site on the response time but I don't remember offhand how fast
it was. It was something to the effect of as often as 30 times per SECOND
though . Cool'n'Quiet and PowerNow! are both very efficient and
unnoticeable in application.

Well, alrighty, you guys did a good job of convincing me to give it a
shot. I'll play with it tonight... especially since WinXP 64-bit may be
coming out today

--JM

Hierophant wrote:
"zzipper" wrote in message
. ..

I agree. I have yet tofind a reason to not have it enabled. The specifics
are on AMD's site on the response time but I don't remember offhand how fast
it was. It was something to the effect of as often as 30 times per SECOND
though . Cool'n'Quiet and PowerNow! are both very efficient and
unnoticeable in application.

Hmmm... okie, I've enabled Cool'N'Quiet in the BIOS but it doesn't seem
there has been an effect on my CPU temperature, it's remained the same.
Do I need to load the Cool'N'Quiet software as well? I didn't because
it says it's only for Windows 2000 and below...

--JM

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:27:21 -0600, Vermyndax wrote:

Hmmm... okie, I've enabled Cool'N'Quiet in the BIOS but it doesn't seem
there has been an effect on my CPU temperature, it's remained the same.
Do I need to load the Cool'N'Quiet software as well?

Yes.

I didn't because it says it's only for Windows 2000 and below...

Then get the one for your OS/version.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...1_9706,00.html

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Wes Newell wrote:
Yes.

Then get the one for your OS/version.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...1_9706,00.html

That page does not have a Cool'N'Quiet software for Windows XP, only
Windows 2000 and below, like I said. I have the AMD processor driver
from that page loaded.

--JM

"Vermyndax" wrote in message
...
Wes Newell wrote:
Yes.

Then get the one for your OS/version.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...1_9706,00.html

That page does not have a Cool'N'Quiet software for Windows XP, only
Windows 2000 and below, like I said. I have the AMD processor driver
from that page loaded.



I see two on that page for XP though they don't actually say Cool'n'Quiet:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../cpudriver.EXE
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../Cpudriver.ZIP

--
Derek

Derek Baker wrote:
I see two on that page for XP though they don't actually say Cool'n'Quiet:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../cpudriver.EXE
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../Cpudriver.ZIP

That's the CPU driver and I already have that one loaded.

--JM

"Vermyndax" wrote in message
...
Derek Baker wrote:
I see two on that page for XP though they don't actually say
Cool'n'Quiet:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../cpudriver.EXE
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../Cpudriver.ZIP

That's the CPU driver and I already have that one loaded.



And it's still not working?

--
Derek

Derek Baker wrote:

And it's still not working?


I don't know if it is or not. I don't really have any proof of it
working one way or the other because there was no software... it was
just a processor driver for WinXP. My temperature on the CPU didn't
lower (or raise, for that matter) and I don't seem to have any software
loaded that can tell me what it's doing.

--JM