Just installed this, and it seems to work, dropping idle temps from 45 to 40 (baking in this room, case is over 30) has anyone else used this software and can they vouch (*sp) that it actually works and doesnt casue any damage?? thanks
yeap. my 2400 .. with case temp at 23c, volcano7+ runnin at 5000rpm ... C2 state enabled, proc temp is 31c. without cpuIdle, proc temp is at 43c. when i quit from a game, my processor temp starts dropping IMMEDIATELY. you can see it in mbm just ticking down from whatever ungodly temps it hits with game running down to at least 10+ ambient. if not lower. and it is safe. all the program does is force the hlt command to kill wasted cpu cycles, so no heat is generated by refreshing ram constantly (at least thats how i understand it) .. if its already in ram, you dont need to compute it again. just let your precious processor idle a little.
i used CPUidle, but when enabled it caused something inside my computer to give off an anoying buzz. It only happens with the porgram open.
is your mobo based on a via chipset? i know the kt266a's and 333's are known to have audio corrupion with cpuidle, but the little "fix via audio" button in cpuidle's options screen fixes it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't windoze XP take care of the idle instructions for you these days - my cpu runs a fair few degrees hotter when I got SETI running than when it's idle.
windows is meant to, but this seems to cut some more off the temps... enabling sound fix stopped corruption here... CS was quite bad and it was noticable on mp3's as well... C2 state increases temps on mine for some reason....
A few years back I used a program called waterfall that basically did the same thing as CPU Idle. I found it actually was hogging my CPU load when the system was idle, so I got rid of waterfall and never used another such program again. Now I got a good old copper heatsink and a low RPM fan and I'm happy.
yes,the cpu will show full load .. but it is a full load of nothingness ... the temps prove it. and as for c2 increasing temps .. it used to on mine, and i dont remember what i changed to fix it ... probably a bios power setting
Yeah could be the ACPI (or whatever) power settings... its fine on this anyways with a case temp on 28, cpu is ~35 idle....
