Thermal Throttling?????????

what is thermal throttling???? it has been set in my bios to 50.0% forever and i jsut read in a post that it should be off for overclocking. I have been looking for answers to why my system is not soo stable sometimes and maybe this could be my answer. What is this setting and what does it do??? Should it be disabled or set to some other percentage than its currently set??? All help apprec...thanks

I have my disabled. It's not the cause of your instability.
Post all the info, from voltage to temps here.

Desktop Bartons do not overclock as well as mobile Bartons.

Some people get them only to their average 2.3 GHz.

twitch579 said:

what is thermal throttling???? it has been set in my bios to 50.0% forever and i jsut read in a post that it should be off for overclocking. I have been looking for answers to why my system is not soo stable sometimes and maybe this could be my answer. What is this setting and what does it do??? Should it be disabled or set to some other percentage than its currently set??? All help apprec...thanks

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Thermal throttle adjusts the CPU frequeny by xx% when your warning temp is exceeded. It is a measure to keep an overheating CPU in check.

It often interferes with AMDXP chips...thus I like it off

how does it adjust it? by the multi???? so it slows down the cpu at high temps?

hi,

for me with CPU thermal-throttling enabled,
cooling behavior is seems to be much better,
it cools down alot faster after prime95,
halo,homeworld2,LOTR ROTK,X2,GP4,etc

12v and 5v rails are more stable and dips less.
system stability overall is much much better,
pass all my game benchmark and prime95.

but with CPU thermal-throttling disabled,
its very unstable,games BSOD,benchmark failed.
and it doesn't cool down much at all

only the original BIOS for my EPOX 8RGA+
have CPU thermal-throttling option available,
but with newer bios,epox has completely dropped
this option,which make my rig very unstable

Sentential said:

Thermal throttle adjusts the CPU frequeny by xx% when your warning temp is exceeded. It is a measure to keep an overheating CPU in check.

It often interferes with AMDXP chips...thus I like it off

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nope,CPU thermal-throttling works like hardware HLT.
and it doesn't interferes or adjusts the CPU frequency.

modern OS like linux,winNT,win2k,winXP
has software HLT already bulit-in...
HLT is how software cpu cooler works,

HLT: HLT instructions works by replacing
idle cycles with a suspend mode.when a
certain percentage of CPU is idle,instead of
generating heat by processing idle cycles,
it's put into a suspend mode, therefore it
runs cooler and also consumes less power.