Around AMD XP2000 performance-level is more then enough to satisfy my future needs for computing power, I think. Im NOT quite happy with its excessive heat-produktion and screaming-fan cooling requirements however.
I was thinking:
Is it viable to upgrade to a future more powerful CPU (lets say an AMD Barton XP3000) - then deliberately <i>underclock</i>, or strangle this beast back to XP2000-2200 levels: just in order to achieve much lower heat-production thanks to the more effective layout/design + a larger core compared to T-breed + the 0.13 technology?
Is underclocking easy and problemfree? I have heard that one must "lock up" the CPU in order to overclock. But must one do that then <i>underclocking</i> also? Or is it enough to jump straight in to BIOS and turn off auto-configuration and change the multiplier (for example) manually? What parameters should one change in order to get the best underclocking-results? (= lowest heat-produktion; quietest cooling-needs).
I was thinking:
Is it viable to upgrade to a future more powerful CPU (lets say an AMD Barton XP3000) - then deliberately <i>underclock</i>, or strangle this beast back to XP2000-2200 levels: just in order to achieve much lower heat-production thanks to the more effective layout/design + a larger core compared to T-breed + the 0.13 technology?
Is underclocking easy and problemfree? I have heard that one must "lock up" the CPU in order to overclock. But must one do that then <i>underclocking</i> also? Or is it enough to jump straight in to BIOS and turn off auto-configuration and change the multiplier (for example) manually? What parameters should one change in order to get the best underclocking-results? (= lowest heat-produktion; quietest cooling-needs).