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| Turned off AMD "Cool 'n Quiet", Idle Temps Drop 10c |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Well, the only other change I've made in the BIOS is turning on the High Performance Computing option. While I fiddled with some of the other settings I ultimately left them in the state they were originally in. ...you know, it could be a motherboard or OS thing. I am using Windows 8 Pro, not the standard Windows 8, plus the motherboard itself is the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, which isn't THAT old. Maybe my specific combination of hardware and software is to blame? Or maybe because most people with AMD FX-8350 chips are power users they don't even care to notice this sort of thing and just figure their CPU usage numbers are high so they must be getting a lot of power out of their systems? *shrugs* Regardless of anything: Turning off AMD Cool 'n Quiet boosted performance of certain programs and reduced overall CPU usage and idle temps on my computer. That much is certain. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Maybe they have the text for the setting backwards in the BIOS. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Yeah, I'm not saying you're wrong about what you've seen. I just don't think its an absolute thing. More like a quirk of your system. Could try updating your bios. I actually had to update my bios when I got my FX-8320. The board wouldn't see it at all. So I re-installed my old Phenom II 810, updated the bios, and installed the FX (again). -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Arthur Kalliokoski said: Maybe they have the text for the setting backwards in the BIOS. That was my very first thought when I noticed this. However, the CPU frequency is constantly reported as being just over 4 GHz when Cool 'n Quiet is off, whereas if it's on, the CPU frequency fluctuates all over the place, getting almost as low as 2 GHz at idle. Thomas Fjellstrom said: Yeah, I'm not saying you're wrong about what you've seen. I just don't think its an absolute thing. More like a quirk of your system. I'd lean more-so towards quirk. I looked into BIOS updates as well. There's only one update newer than what came pre-installed, and all the update does is fix something related to hard drives when using Windows XP. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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Kris Asick said: I am using Windows 8 Pro, not the standard Windows 8 You can only install Pro on a computer anyway. The standard Windows 8 is for ARM based systems, and normally you can only install one OS on those anyway (iOS/Android/etc). --- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Miquel Burns said: You can only install Pro on a computer anyway. The standard Windows 8 is for ARM based systems, and normally you can only install one OS on those anyway (iOS/Android/etc).
Uh... you're thinking of Windows RT. Windows 8 for PCs comes in three flavours: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows 8 Enterprise, that last one only being available through volume licensing. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Kris Asick said: I looked into BIOS updates as well. There's only one update newer than what came pre-installed, and all the update does is fix something related to hard drives when using Windows XP. Never ever ever believe BIOS update change logs are even remotely complete, or honest. I've had bios updates claim they do one thing, and fix a crap load of things. -- |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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I didn't know Windows had editions beyond RT and Desktop. Shows you how much I care. --- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Windows is one of those pieces of software that comes in a billion different SKUs. Every time people think MS is about to simplify it, MS tends to announce even more SKUs for it. -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: Never ever ever believe BIOS update change logs are even remotely complete, or honest. I've had bios updates claim they do one thing, and fix a crap load of things. This doesn't really surprise me, but for the moment, the thing's working fine so I'm not gonna bother doing a flash. One thing that's really cool though is that my motherboard can actually flash from USB directly while the system is off and plugged in. This way, in the unlikely event the BIOS gets messed up from a prior flash, you can load a BIOS update onto a USB stick, flash the BIOS directly from the stick, and get everything working again. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Yeah, some of those motherboards are damn cool. They can boot into the flash utility without a regular CPU installed. I imagine they have a more complicated system controller. Maybe a MIPS or an ARM based mCU to handle that. -- |
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