CPU Thermal Throttling?

edwardaune

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I was in the BIOS and when you go to the advanced settings (Ctrl + F1) there is a setting for CPU Thermal Throttling (mine was sest at 50%) can anyone explain what that setting is for.

 

jonspd

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disable it

It's to allow your cpu to throttle back when it is being overworked.

 

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jonspd said:

disable it

It's to allow your cpu to throttle back when it is being overworked.

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Seriously? What adverse effect could that have on a puter?

 

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Could allow you not to OC as high .

 

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edwardaune said:

Seriously? What adverse effect could that have on a puter?

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Leaving it on has a tendancy to make your overclocks a little more unstable.... I don't think I've used it in years.... you should be o.k. if you turn it off.

 

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Dont forget to diable agp and cpu spread spetrum.

 

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jonspd said:

Dont forget to diable agp and cpu spread spetrum.

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Where is that in the BIOS, I looked and couldnt find it ecen under the advanced options? I did disable thermal throttling.

 

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maybe try pci config area should be with the throttling.

 

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jonspd said:

disable it

It's to allow your cpu to throttle back when it is being overworked.

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nope,and it doesn't make OC unstable. actually its more stable in the summer time when weather is hot.
instead of generating heat by processing idle cycles,AMD/nforce's Thermal Throttling puts unused/idle part of the CPU into a suspend mode, therefore it runs cooler and also consumes less power,but if you're folding and stuff where CPU is always @100% then Thermal Throttling won't even come into play

its not like intel's Thermal Throttling,where it starts to change mhz/speed etc...