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Old February 24th 18, 08:22 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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Default AMD and a hot date to flirt at the horrorshow

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 04:35:44 -0500, Flasherly
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Dahmn Sam - Scratch everything.


Basically, with the appropriate BIOS implementation for AMD
PileDriver/BullDozer chips, within my FX-series' heat-throttling
design, short of seriously going outside of default BIOS settings, it
can be run effectively without consequence for heat. Once the CPU
sensor exceeds a safety temperature threshold, the clock multiplier
and frequency drops down next to nodding off. No hands needed,
(proprietary AMD software is optional), it's fundamentally hardwired.
Mine drops from 3.3to 1.4Ghz;- potentially drop that another 1.3Ghz
and a 100Mhz core speed ought to do for a CPU without a fan.

(The subsequent Ryzen build, past a same high-set temperature offset
execution, apparently works with much the same technology.)

Another scenario would be to set the core multipliers to an anomalous
low. Instead of AMD "Cool & Quiet" technology shuffling out
programming inactivity -- between unused cores assigned a baseline
clock, used cores being a proviso for AMD's Turbo Boost -- would be to
set the lowest minimal usage to the baseline core multiplier, simply
then to assign to Turbo Boost the highest build-margin feasibly
obtainable.

Ramping from 800Mhz, lower, much, of course for old, non-gaming
software, to and from a stock publicized 4.2Ghz, to 5Ghz, overclocked,
as it were, across eight cores. At the speed of light, I suppose,
there's little need to stutter.