Vcool Athlon/Duron Program....get it!

Have u guys heard of Vcool. If any of you havent, this is whats its about.

I downloaded Vcool today, and it has reduced my idle temperatures by about 7-8 degrees. This is what their site says:

"The Athlon (or Duron) enters a lower power state only when its system bus is disconnected. However the (VIA-)Northbridge will only disconnect the bus if its "Bus Disconnect Enable" bit is set and the CPU is in STPGNT state.
VCool allows you to enable this bit so your CPU can relax when there's nothing to do."

It looks like this, and sits in your tray.



get it at http://vcool.occludo.net

 

It kept crashing my machine when I tried it 6 months ago.

 

well this is their 17th release of the program, and it is working nicely on my A7V133-C and my XP1800.

 

does it really work that well?? hmmm....

 

well yeah, as you know flix, my idle temps were 45 yesterday, they are 38 today.

 

my machine is always under full load anyway (continualy runs UD)

& my temps arent that high as it is now running at stock speed 35 on full load cant be bad can it

 

nice.... lowered my temps from 40C to 34C

 

hmm...it says that it only works with a kt133x chipset...anyone use it with a kt266a??

 

Interesting to note that this software (from the screenie) allows you to do in software what the P4 does in hardware, namely CPU throttling at high temps.

This cooling trick has been known about for some time. Many BIOS have this option enabled. The KT7A had it enabled up until version 3R (one reason I stuck to 3C). If this option is enabled in your bios, the software can't help.

Also, this will only affect idle temps. Load temps are unaffected.

 

If your bios doesn't have the feature load up wprcredit and look at you chipset specs to enable it.

 

My mobo has CPU throttle enabled, but obviously not the feature that this program gives you. This is probably the reason it is only compatible with KT133A chipsets, as most newer chipsets must have this on (even though the KT7A is the same chipset.)

 

herbs, what did you say i shuold do to enable this???

 

this really worked

tis is the best thing to happen to my computer since my ccd, yesterday my idle temps were quite high 50C and now they are 28C, thx for posting this software Cruelinios. <gay thanks>I bow down to your superiorness. /me bows</gay thanks>

 

lol hehhe its now worry, it worked really well with me thought I should share it

 

I have come accross a similar thread at overclockers.com quite some time ago and they do not recommend progs like this because the difference between idle and load temps will be quite high and if u tend to shift a lot between idle and load than the core of the cpu will shrink and expand considerably and could cause the core to crack.
If the temp change is smaller than the shrinking will not reach minimum and the expanding will not be that abrupt since the change will only be about 3-5 *C

Bow to my knowledge lol jj

 

Athlons .......funny...i dont need any special program to keep my 2GHZ P4 cool.....

 

It will only crack if the temperature changed by 20 - 25 degrees at least.

 

Yeah...shame that it isn't possible to prevent the p4 from throttling though, so that unless you've got some pretty incredible cooling, you can't extract full performance from it.....

As for core cracking due to expansion/contraction....well, there are much bigger things to worry about really. If the CPU remains within reasonable temperature ranges (eg 20C-60C) then this isn't really going to be a problem compared to the millions of other things that can happen....

 

like your heatsink falling off? eek! *remembers that THG video*

 

that was just damn painfull....