AMD Athlon XP Cooling: Idle State

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2 total messages Started by Nick Coleman Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:49

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Author: Nick Coleman
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:49

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After accidentally coming across an article describing idling states in
AMD processors in the HOW-TOs, I installed athcool, a program to enable
the idle state of AMD Athlon XP processors in Linux.

Very surprised to find the cpu temp dropped from a previously very
consistent 48C down to 31C over about 20 minutes, despite continued use
of the computer to work in a document, browse, read emails, etc. IOW,
cpu idling seems useful for more than just overnight idling.

-- 
Nick
Mandrake 9.2
KDE 3.1.3

Re: AMD Athlon XP Cooling: Idle State

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Author: The Locum Sysadmin
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:36

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Nick Coleman wrote:

> After accidentally coming across an article describing idling states in
> AMD processors in the HOW-TOs, I installed athcool, a program to enable

Thanks for that, it is indeed pretty useful for fanatical tweakers (yeah,
that's me alright!)

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