cpu cooling programs
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If you're using AMD Thunderbird or XP, then the free wpcredit apps will work just fine. Go to amdmb.com > forums> manufacturer of your mobo. Do a search of wpcredit or just ask around what the correct settings are for your mobo.
You could get a cool program, but this takes-up fewer resources and works just as well.
You could get a cool program, but this takes-up fewer resources and works just as well.
or you could Go here and make a search for cpucool.
/http://www.acedown.com/
/http://www.acedown.com/
'Haven't been keeping up with orbs, but I recall from last year when they were (in)famous for snapping the corners off chips. Oooch! That's gotta smart.
If you overclock (or have a fast CPU) for performance, and you USE that performance, there won't be much idle time for a software CPU cooling program to help you in.
THAT is the fallacy of software CPU cooling - though billed as essential for overclockers, it does little on a stressed system.
On my old system though (Cyrix), I DID use a software cooler - RAIN - it improved the idle temp, not so much of the fanned CPU, but of the unfanned heatsink of the old-stlye linear mode voltage regulator, which ran uncomfortably hot!
A minute after activating RAIN, the heatsink was cold metal, as if it was doing nothing.
On my current system (Athlon on AMD750 chipset) none of my available software coolers made any difference - and the idle time in the standard Windows monitor shows the same effects as when using a HALT-based cooler - CPU reads close to 100%, as the idle time is eliminated.
THAT is the fallacy of software CPU cooling - though billed as essential for overclockers, it does little on a stressed system.
On my old system though (Cyrix), I DID use a software cooler - RAIN - it improved the idle temp, not so much of the fanned CPU, but of the unfanned heatsink of the old-stlye linear mode voltage regulator, which ran uncomfortably hot!
A minute after activating RAIN, the heatsink was cold metal, as if it was doing nothing.
On my current system (Athlon on AMD750 chipset) none of my available software coolers made any difference - and the idle time in the standard Windows monitor shows the same effects as when using a HALT-based cooler - CPU reads close to 100%, as the idle time is eliminated.
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Of course good hardware cooling is a must if one is to obtain decent temps on all heat exposed hardware (hdd, gpu etc). But thanks to software cooling I for one are able to adjust my 5 (+2 in psu) fans to an unhearable level when im just surfing, listening to music, letting the donkey do it`s thing or watching a movie. To me noise is one of the biggest problems with todays pc`s
Just my 2 cents
Just my 2 cents
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Yup, wpcredit does rock. For those who don't know, this program triggers the inbuilt idle cooling program in XP chips.
My o'ced XP1800 runs at a very chilly 28C.
My o'ced XP1800 runs at a very chilly 28C.
Indeed, it is dangerous to 'play' with the registers, but I've used wpcredit with both an 1100 thunderbird on an Asus board and the xp1800 on the abit kr7a, and it has worked flawlessly.
The key is to get accurate information about setting the registers -- and to go slowly, cautiously until you're sure they work.
The key is to get accurate information about setting the registers -- and to go slowly, cautiously until you're sure they work.