Hi guys One more thing I will report from my own experience: I would turn off the Fan Control feature of your bios. I used to set it, especially on AMD systems, but it seems to run the fans too fast.
I leave it off on the systems I sell! 73 Neal On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Neal Campbell <[email protected]>wrote: > If you have System Cooling Management enabled in the Power Control Panel it > will try to power down cores as it feels its not needed, unless you turn off > cool n'quiet in the bios. > > I do this for all AMD systems. You cannot turn off Speedstep in the new > Intel processors because you will not get Turboboost (and thats where the > value of the CPU resides). > > 73 > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Steven Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have set the minimum CPU to 100% in Windows 7 Power settings but I >> still see some of the cores dropping down to 800 MHz in Core Temp. >> There must be a driver involved. I had to power down the Flex-3000 and >> it's computer due to thunder and lightening. >> >> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Tony Estep <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Steven Hess <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I am running a 6 core AMD Phenom that is a 3.2 ghz CPU....CPU load is >> never >> >> much more than 7% with PowerSDR....< >> http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352> >> > >> > ======== >> > I have the same processor, Steve, and similar CPU load readings. I'm not >> > running the down-shifting software but it seems that the system has lots >> of >> > extra capacity. My cores run at < 25 C all the time now matter what I'm >> > doing. It helps to have an 8" diameter fan on the top of the case. I >> have >> > some math optimization problems that run all six cores at once, but they >> > never get hot. >> > >> > Tony KT0NY >> > _______________________________________________ >> > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flexradio.com/ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ____________ >> Steven L Hess ARS KC6KGE DM05gd22 >> Skype user flamebait Cell 661 487 0357 (Facetime) >> Google Voice 661 769 6201 >> openSUSE Linux 11.3 and 11.4 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> [email protected] >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flexradio.com/ >> > > > > -- > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > Work:(540) 645 5394 > Mobile:(540) 645 8171 > > > -- Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com Work:(540) 645 5394 Mobile:(540) 645 8171 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
