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    CPU temps, what do you think?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Gado, Oct 13, 2008.

  1. Gado

    Gado Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the extensa 4420
    today I was in class and I was just typing notes and I noticed that my cooling fan was quite noticable so I turned the fan always on function to "off" and the fan turned off and it was nice and quiet. i watched the temps hover around 38 but when the temps hit 41 (according to NHC) the fan kicked in at a good low speed. the NHC was setting the CPU to stay at 800mhz per core so I was wondering if that is a good temp? I have experience in using thermal paste, would that help lower the temps enough to stay under 41 degrees?
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    41c is a good idle temperature.

    Thermal paste will probably lower it a little.

    Have you tried undervolting with NHC?
     
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    Gado Notebook Enthusiast

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    Uhh I thought the NHC using the AMD PowerNow! was undervolting it.
    I let it automatically do the voltage thing, since I dont know what voltages I can run at. When set to dynamic throttling it goes between 800mhz 1600mhz and 1900mhz. When typing notes at 800mhz per core I don't even use 50% of that.
     
    Gado, Oct 14, 2008
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    Bog Losing it...

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    AMD PowerNow! is for AMD CPUs, but NHC only runs on Intel CPUs. Also, PowerNow! is AMD's answer to Intel's Speedstep - it adjusts the clock speed (not voltage) according to CPU demand.

    Adjusting the voltage has little to do with the clock speed.
     
    Bog, Oct 14, 2008
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    actually I think it was the other way around, I have read that AMD infact had PowerNow! before intel released SpeedStep. NHC work on AMD chips, it doesn't undervolt though. 41! wow mine runs at 67 idle. usually 76-84 underload... (TL-60 2.0Ghz X2).
     
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    Gado Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh thats wierd, I was using the AMD program before NHC, to tell me what the current CPU speed was and it also said the voltage(or what I think is the voltage). It would lower when the cpu was at 800mhz and raise when at 1.6ghz or 1.9ghz What is Vcore?
     
    Gado, Oct 14, 2008
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    I'm using RM clock and I see that when I run at 800mhz the multiplier is 4.0x and the voltage is .9000v. If I lower the voltage I should get lower temps when using 800mhz and just using word 2007?
     
    Gado, Oct 15, 2008
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