to Matisaro about Vcool

Or any other expert in semiconductors.

I found about<A HREF="http://vcool.naggel.com/" target="_new"> Vcool </A> in a thread here in THG, and I was very impressed with how much it would lower idle CPU temps (10-18 C in my case!).

However, the result is a large ä between idle and full load temps, going from 30 to 50 C or more.
So, while I am happy about having low idle temps, I am worrying if the continuous change between high and low temps may be more hazardous to the CPU than having hotter idle Ts and less fluctuation.
And since the above temps are lower than the actual temps inside the chip, maybe a large ä with highs closer to 100 C is really hazardous.

What do you think?

So you would say that having hotter idle Ts (around 45C) do less damage to the CPU and would be preferable than running VCool?

About benchmarking I have only done 3dmark & SiSoft and haven't found any losses.
It would be very interesting to see what you will find.

Thanks

i thought the same, and still not sure if such variation will hurt the cpu, however i email vcool and amd asking about such variation and they both could not reply what i needed to hear, i am not sure if they understand my question or if there is a fact that they both do not want to decalre that this variation hurts the cpu.

currently i am using vcool and it is really cool, but ir reduced the burst speed in hdtach from 70mb to 35mb, so i also contact vcool and he said this is normal and if you want to pass this effect you need to disable the cool bit choise. But in real usage i didnot notice any difference in hard disk performance.

but i really like this program, because most of us do not utilize the cpu 100% all the time, so we can keep it as cool as possible.

wish if there was UnDo in the life