AMD Cool and Quiet

[crsgardner]

I've been away from desktop gaming for a few years (I had a Toshiba laptop that was up to snuff for all but the latest games). Anyway, I got used to Intel's SpeedStep and it pretty much configured itself out of the box to run at full speed when I was gaming. Regarding AMD's Cool and Quiet: does it do the same thing, or am I going to run into situations where the system is lowering processing speed when it shouldn't?

 

[Jeff7181]

As far as I know it should do the same thing... I'd use it.

 

[Nyati13]

I've had C&Q enabled on my PC for several months now, and it doesn't cause a single problem that I can see. I mostly game on it, plus burn CDs and play music CDs and files.
If anything, the C&Q function turns up the power faster than it needs to. The only problem I have ever encountered is that some benchmarking programs will sample the CPU speed early, before applying a load, and will measure the CPU as being 800MHz. The benchmark results will still show that full CPU power was available.

Jeremy

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: Nyati13
I've had C&Q enabled on my PC for several months now, and it doesn't cause a single problem that I can see. I mostly game on it, plus burn CDs and play music CDs and files.
If anything, the C&Q function turns up the power faster than it needs to. The only problem I have ever encountered is that some benchmarking programs will sample the CPU speed early, before applying a load, and will measure the CPU as being 800MHz. The benchmark results will still show that full CPU power was available.

Jeremy

Ditto, programs like 3dmark say your results aren't legit cuz your cpu changed speed during the testing and sandra showed 800 mhz too I think.

 

[dm33186]

i cant seem to get this working on my asus k8v deluxe se.

i installed the driver out of \drivers\amd\xp\english\k8cpu and it took that acpi 2.0 is enabled and power management is at the minial setting but the asus program always reads 2.2ghz and 1.5 vcore

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: dm33186
i cant seem to get this working on my asus k8v deluxe se.

i installed the driver out of \drivers\amd\xp\english\k8cpu and it took that acpi 2.0 is enabled and power management is at the minial setting but the asus program always reads 2.2ghz and 1.5 vcore

Try clearing the CMOS and re-enabling it. Same thing happened to me.

 

[Zebo]

I have been waiting a long time to see a review if it's seemless. Why don't you try.

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

I just got a 3500 and an Asus A8V and I've been playing around with the cool and quiet the past three days. I've run a ton of test & benchmarks and from everything I've seen, it's working great. EVERY test & bench I've run has yielded an almost identical result with CnQ on or off, which is telling me that it's working exactly as it should.

BTW - I have my machine OC'd to 2.4ghz on stock HSF w/artic silver 5. It's 100% stable. Had prime95 going, installed UT2004, had 3 IE windows open, outlook open, cpuz open and asus probe running all at the same time without a hiccup. System never got over 59C.

Without CnQ enabled, I run about 49C idle and 59C load.
With CnQ enabled, I'm running 30C idle and 59C load.

I plan on doing a lot of gaming and I am certainly going to keep CnQ running on my machine.

 

[Zebo]

:thumbsup: Thanks mooby, this adds another point for the A64. It's a shame no socket A board makers did powernow considering the populatiry of the mobiles. I always wanted to build a system that could be thermally controlled based on activity. For example, doing office work where concentration is required so high rpm fans could annoy well this "cool and quiet" could enable fans to slow down. But when gaming who cares how loud the system is....max speeds and crank the fans.

 

[MWoody]

Quick question: On my ASUS K8V Deluxe, it appears that I need to keep the little taskbar app running for the Cool & Quiet function to operate. Is this correct, or am I misinterpreting the data? If it must be running, it seems odd that it doesn't stick itself in startup automatically.

I'd love to leave the thing closed if at all possible, if only due to an innate distrust of TSRs leftover from the DOS days.

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

No, you don't need to keep the CnQ monitor running. If you want to verify that it's working right, just check your temps or run CPUz at idle and it will show you the lower speeds.

 

[MWoody]

Yep, you're right; thanks! I was using MBM5 to test, but its CPU speed detection is absolutely awful. That CPUz program is just what the doctor ordered.

On a side note, my computer is now like those electric cars: its so damn quiet that I can't tell if it's on, which is freaking me out. I have to run SETI@Home for nearly ten minutes before it turns my fan on at all.

 

[S0Y73NTGR33N]

Originally posted by: MoobyTheGoldenCalf
I just got a 3500 and an Asus A8V and I've been playing around with the cool and quiet the past three days. I've run a ton of test &amp; benchmarks and from everything I've seen, it's working great. EVERY test &amp; bench I've run has yielded an almost identical result with CnQ on or off, which is telling me that it's working exactly as it should. <BR><BR>BTW - I have my machine OC'd to 2.4ghz on stock HSF w/artic silver 5. It's 100% stable. Had prime95 going, installed UT2004, had 3 IE windows open, outlook open, cpuz open and asus probe running all at the same time without a hiccup. System never got over 59C.<BR><BR>Without CnQ enabled, I run about 49C idle and 59C load.<BR>With CnQ enabled, I'm running 30C idle and 59C load.<BR><BR>I plan on doing a lot of gaming and I am certainly going to keep CnQ running on my machine.

2.4 ghz is overclocking on a 3500?

 

[S0Y73NTGR33N]

I'm just asking cause my 3400+ runs at 2.4 ghz default.

 

[kamranziadar]

i think it does not matter.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: S0Y73NTGR33N

2.4 ghz is overclocking on a 3500?

3500+ = 2.2 GHz + S939 (S939 = dual channel memory which apparently equals 200-300 "plus points" to AMD)

The lowest 2.4GHz processor on S939 is the 3800+, which is priced INSANELY high.
Most of the benches I've seen put the 3400+ very close to even the FX53 in many applications.