On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 09:43:06 -0600
Alex Schultz <alex_sch@telus.net> wrote:
> Jens Mayer wrote:
>
> >* On Saturday 09 October 2004 00:05, Peter Gaži wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I read about athcool utility recently in this list, so i emerged
> >it>and it works perfectly, my Athlon XP1700+ is at 40 C when idle.
> >But>the emerge was followed by a message:
> >>
> >> * WARNING: This program can cause instability in your system.
> >> * Use at your own risk!
> >>
> >>so I would like to ask you people if any of you had any bad
> >>experience with athcool. Is it safe to use?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well, user experiences may vary from setup to setup, depending on
> >what components and chipsets are used.
> >
> >Anyway, I didn't encounter any instabilities after installing and
> >running athcool for now about two months.
> >
> >Athcool is an amazing piece of software: I had my CPU (an Athlon XP
> > 2600+ on a fairly cheap Asrock K7S8X mainboard) at about 50 C when
> >
> >idle, therefor having two big fans inside my tower.
> >
> >After installing athcool _AND_ removing those big fans (lord, it is
> >so quiet now!), the CPU is at about 40 C when idle - a huge
> >difference in my humble opinion. Very rarely it even gets at 39 C -
> >that's something I only saw with my Intel CPUs before! ;-)
> >
> >Regards,
> >Jens
> >
> >
> >
> Heh. One interesting thing, is my Athlon XP 2000+ runs between 35
> and 40 C when idel, WITHOUT athcool, and I'm only using the stock
> AMD cpu fan, and NO case fans (unless you count the power supply).
> And at full CPU useage it never gets above 45 C.
>
> Alex S.
>
Some mainboards activate the stuff, which athcool activates per
default... for example a NForce2 board a friend of mine had
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