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Question on Opteron PowerNow Driver
We installed Windows 2003 64-Bit on our first Opteron server, which will
eventually have eight cores. The HP BIOS allows you to start the system out at 1.8 GHz, to lower energy consumption. As best I can figure, we are supposed to download from AMD's site the Opteron PowerNow CPU driver and install this to the OS. Questions as follows: - After installation, is this driver supposed to raise the processor speed automatically when the system is under heavy usage? - What is the criteria for when and for how long it will continue at the higher processor speed? - Can we change default values for any part of the algorithm? There doesn't appear to be any GUI to configure the driver, but maybe there are registry settings? I couldn't find documentation for it. - Does anyone know how we might graph over time what speeds the CPU is running at, just to get a feeling for how active this technology is, and how often we were in the power saving 1.8 GHz mode? -- Will |
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Question on Opteron PowerNow Driver
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:03:08 -0700, Will wrote:
We installed Windows 2003 64-Bit on our first Opteron server, which will eventually have eight cores. The HP BIOS allows you to start the system out at 1.8 GHz, to lower energy consumption. As best I can figure, we are supposed to download from AMD's site the Opteron PowerNow CPU driver and install this to the OS. Questions as follows: - After installation, is this driver supposed to raise the processor speed automatically when the system is under heavy usage? Depends on how you configure it. - What is the criteria for when and for how long it will continue at the higher processor speed? Ditto. (at least I can set this in linux, I don't do windows) - Can we change default values for any part of the algorithm? There doesn't appear to be any GUI to configure the driver, but maybe there are registry settings? I couldn't find documentation for it. I've only installed it on one old W98 machine. The control portion of it is added on to the cpu performance thing. But I'll be #$%^& if I remember where. - Does anyone know how we might graph over time what speeds the CPU is running at, just to get a feeling for how active this technology is, and how often we were in the power saving 1.8 GHz mode? I know what speed mine is running at, but that doesn't help you much. IIRC, there was a windows tool that came with the MB to detect this and other things like temps, voltages, fan speeds, etc. For Windows I've heard MBM5, Speedfan, and several other such utilities mentioned. That's the best I can do. Wouldn't even have replied but didn't see anyone else replying. Good luck. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
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Question on Opteron PowerNow Driver
"Wes Newell" wrote in message
news:LPzsi.25252$Ya1.9314@trnddc06... On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:03:08 -0700, Will wrote: We installed Windows 2003 64-Bit on our first Opteron server, which will eventually have eight cores. The HP BIOS allows you to start the system out at 1.8 GHz, to lower energy consumption. As best I can figure, we are supposed to download from AMD's site the Opteron PowerNow CPU driver and install this to the OS. Questions as follows: - After installation, is this driver supposed to raise the processor speed automatically when the system is under heavy usage? Depends on how you configure it. So this is the crux of the issue: how do I configure it? The installer for Windows does not install documentation, does not install a Program Group, and does not install an applet in Control Panel. There may be a hidden management application there, but I don't see it and need help finding it. -- Will |
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Question on Opteron PowerNow Driver
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:31:18 -0700, Will wrote:
So this is the crux of the issue: how do I configure it? The installer for Windows does not install documentation, does not install a Program Group, and does not install an applet in Control Panel. There may be a hidden management application there, but I don't see it and need help finding it. Plug "windows powernow settings" into google or yahoo. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
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Question on Opteron PowerNow Driver
So this is the crux of the issue: how do I configure it?
All you need do is enable coolnquiet in the bios, install the driver, and in the controlpanel/power set the power scheme to Minimal Power Management. That's all. You can verify it's working by checking the clockspeed shown in cpanel/system or a utility like wcpuid. rms |
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Question on Opteron PowerNow Driver
On Aug 12, 6:24 pm, "rms" wrote:
So this is the crux of the issue: how do I configure it? All you need do is enable coolnquiet in the bios, install the driver, and in the controlpanel/power set the power scheme to Minimal Power Management. That's all. You can verify it's working by checking the clockspeed shown in cpanel/system or a utility like wcpuid. rms Do you need to do this in BIOS or will driver enable the BIOS setting for you? |
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