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!!! Good tip: AMD Power Monitor for quieter operation !!!
Hello,
While reading this x-bit lab review/report I came across this interesting look tool. I was wondering if my cpu was overheating at some places... (because I was worried about a little bit of missing thermal paste material, which is probably no issue but o) I was also wondering if artic silver 5 could reduce the heat and thereby the noise because the fan kicks in at 46 degrees and the cpu was changing between 45 degrees and 46 degrees making the fan spin up and down up and down... Since it had these pictures of the cores I wondered if there were multiple sensors on the chip but this is not the case... though the tool is very handy and here is why: First of all I don't know if this is necessary for the tool to be able to do it's thing but I have "Cool and Quiet" and "Q-Fan Control" enabled in the bios and ofcourse also the "Cool and Quiet" drivers installed. Then do this: Download/Install the AMD Power Monitor. Read the short manual... it will help you understand things very quickly... otherwise follow this instructions: Right click on the tray icon and select: "Minimum battery power" or any other settings like "laptop/maximum battery savings" etc. All these settings do the same... I think what they do is they lower the cpu voltage thereby decreasing the clock speed ? Or something ? Because in they bios I can't run the cpu slower ? But maybe via vcore settings it can run slower ? Anyway this settings makes the cores of the processor run at only 1000 mhz instead 2000 mhz.. thereby reducing the heat... and now the temperature is like 43 degrees... And now the fans don't spin up anymore and my system is pretty quiet... and I like it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalooooooooootttttttttttt tiiieeeeeeeeeee =D Especially for just every day windows use... this is excellent... I haven't tried playing any games yet to see what happens... but I already love it... So this tool and tip gets a 3 star rating which is the best rating possible =D *** AMD Power Monitor *** There you go... 3 STAR RATING =D Bye, Skybuck. P.S.: Actually I was looking for a way to make my system run underclock and more quiet... Quite disappointing to see that asus provides no tools to do this... Bad Bad Bad nononononononono. Oh well at least the people at AMD have a brain lol Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee THUMBS UP FOR AMD Wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP over and out. |
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