Cooling the 1GHz Beast by Force

[Guest]

Quoting a review posted elsewhere:
"On a whim, we slapped in the Duron 1 GHz and lowered the core voltage down to 1.6V and rebooted. The system started up without a problem and progressed through all benchmark testing without a hitch."

Ok, does that mean that, just as you can up the voltage a little to overclock, with the Duron 1 GHz you can go back to 1.6V and, say, run it a few degrees cooler?

And what are the problems one can face by lowering the core voltage of the CPU?

Finally, does the thermal diode in this new Duron means the CPU will shut down itself if the temp gets too high?

 

[trak0r]

" Ok, does that mean that, just as you can up the voltage a little to overclock, with the Duron 1 GHz you can go back to 1.6V and, say, run it a few degrees cooler? "

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" And what are the problems one can face by lowering the core voltage of the CPU? "


- yes. it does mean it will run a little cooler. but, will it run stable? Thats the other side to scaLing voltage down. I would suggest leaving the voltage alone, unless of course you HAVE to have it run a few degree's cooler (which you shouldn't, expecially because it is a duron, not an athlon) Maybe get a good swiftek or something, but if your buying a duron, your probably on a strict budjet.

" Finally, does the thermal diode in this new Duron means the CPU will shut down itself if the temp gets too high? "

yes, but, the bios is the one that controls the emergency shutdown procedure, not the CPU. Intel's onboard thermo diode is much better in this regatd because it will shut itself down at 135 or something degrees without the help from bios.

I hope that answers all your questions.

asta

Tr@k0r





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