Software cooler: Free and works great!

[sangram]

First, am I violating protocol here? If so, please do tell me so.

If you have a Via chipset on your motherboard, and are looking for a software cooler, this may be good. It works perfectly for me You've to actually tweak 'PCI settings' a little judiciously: You'll see what I mean when you d/l it.

It's only 60 kb, and my temps dropped by over 13 celsius. Not only is it 100% free, the author has a very good support forum.

Of course, standard blah applies: I'm not responsible if your mb goes to sleep or anything. I'm also sorry if this has been posted before, I didn't find it anywhere else, so...

This is where I first read about it (http://bbs.pcstats.com/amdzone/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=48846)

This is where you can d/l it. (http://www.naggelgames.de/vcool/VCool.html)

Sang

[WillysNut]

Hmmm...I'll have to give that a look-see. I've got a 1.33 T-Bird that's been really warm lately. Thanks for the link! I don't think your violating protocol at all. Your letting people know about a cool little progie. If anything, maybe the post should be in cooling instead of AMD CPU's but that is a fuzzy line to figure out sometimes.

[SpEeDyGoNzAlEs]

Man.. It really works just fine!!

I've got a TBird 800 @ 1GHz (fsb 100 x mult 10) and themps were around 50ºC... After I installed VCool, temps dropped to 38, 39ºC!!!

Thx a lot :)

[!-=sky=-!]

too bad this program only runs with via chips.........i have been using this for a while already and it only helps when your cpu is idle

but i m only using it so i can look at the temps, nothign else

[Tomas]

Whats the point running those programs?? Its only the idle temp which will decrease while loaded temp are around the same.

I dont think its much safer for a cpu to be like 30c idle and 60c loaded then i think its better for it running like high 40s low 50s idle and 60c loaded.

The temperature variation isnt good for the cpu, just get a good hsw and u dont need those programs. Also the pc will be more unstable with such kind of programs.

[-=UR=- Ranger]

Yeah, i think Tomas is right, the high temperature changes are much worser for as CPU than running it at a high but constant temperature. And those software coolers will also do nothing for stability problems caused by heat, as the load temperatures don´t change.
And I would have no use for a software cooler at all, as my CPU is allways at full load, as I´m running the foalding@home client in the background all the time

[Alex99]

Originally posted by Tomas
Whats the point running those programs?? Its only the idle temp which will decrease while loaded temp are around the same.

I dont think its much safer for a cpu to be like 30c idle and 60c loaded then i think its better for it running like high 40s low 50s idle and 60c loaded.

The temperature variation isnt good for the cpu, just get a good hsw and u dont need those programs. Also the pc will be more unstable with such kind of programs.

I agree with you 100%. I've never been a fan of those icky software cooling jokes.

[Alex99]

By the way, I have a great idea for cooling idle CPUs.
Ok, ready? Here it is:

TURN THE FRICKIN COMPUTER OFF!!!

It's idle temp you wanna lower, right? If it's idle, you're not using it!!! Well, turn the mofo off!!!

[Sonny]

LOL!!! That is a new idea you got there:D

[Superman53142]

Originally posted by Alex99
By the way, I have a great idea for cooling idle CPUs.
Ok, ready? Here it is:

TURN THE FRICKIN COMPUTER OFF!!!

It's idle temp you wanna lower, right? If it's idle, you're not using it!!! Well, turn the mofo off!!!

Or join either our Folding@Home or Seti@Home teams. Why waste clock cycles? Visit the respective forums for more information.

[WillysNut]

Wow..okay, okay if ya like it ya do, if ya don't, ya don't. Sangram took the time to give everyone a link and an option to try out. Let's say thanks for the link instead of blowing off the idea all together.

For those that don't run Folding or Seti (could that be possible? :)), and live in warm climates, software cooling is completely and totally usable.

[Alex99]

Originally posted by WillysNut
Sangram took the time to give everyone a link and an option to try out. Let's say thanks for the link instead of blowing off the idea all together.



Agreed. Sangram, I didn't mean to belittle your post nor try to make fun of it. I am just expressing my opinion to the concept of using software to cool idle CPUs. As a matter, this is not a bad concept at all if you leave your computer on 24x7.

[Fiz]

It dropped my load temp by a little bit as well, I also like the throttling option. I thnk it's a snazzy little prog to try out.

Fiz

[redduc900]

I've always used the register 52=EB in Wpcredit, but thought I'd give VCool a try. Without using the "throttling" option, it works fine because it does the same as Wpcredit...setting register 52 to EB (or enabling "Disconnect Enable when STPGNT detected"). To enable STPGNT, change bit 7 to a 1 (default is normally 0)...using a KT133 (A) northbridge and the 11060305 PCR file.

When I enabled "throttling", I noticed a further 1-2C temp drop. Normally, whenever I run "ATTO Disk Benchmark" with register 52 set to EB, the read and write scores are just slightly lower than with bit 7 set to 0. When I did a disk bench with VCool running (throttling also enabled), read and write scores dropped to between 1/3 and 1/4 of what they were previously.

So, I just went back to using Wpcrset to load the 52=EB register instead of using Vcool, although it might work fine with other boards (as far as using the "throttling" option).

[watmann]

Great program!!! It dropped my temps by 10 C!!! :D