therm throttling question

de_yogurt · 09-15-07, 10:53 PM

i have a 3.0 prescott on the socket 478. in my BIOS options i see a therm throttling setting. 25%, 50%, and 75%. what would changing this setting do. does it have to do with the load on the cpu or what? thanks in advance. have a good one!

Yogurt

Kuroimaho · 09-15-07, 11:36 PM

Thermal throttling depends on the temperature afaik it doesn't decrease voltage at least in prescotts so far from the best solution to the problem.

de_yogurt · 09-16-07, 12:31 AM

right i knew that. by load i meant how hot the cpu would get from working to hard. so what do the %'s mean (ex like if the cpu is at 50% usage, it starts the therm throttle)? just wondering what i can do so my cpu runs closer to the actual clock. thanks. have a good one!

Yogurt

th3 · 09-16-07, 02:05 PM

No, the CPU will not throttle before it has reached a certain temperature, with normal cooling it should never get to that point even with 100% continuous load. I guess this setting specifies how much it should throttle down IF overheating occurs, and in any case it will not have any impact on performance.

09-15-07, 10:53 PM	Thread Starter #1
de_yogurt Join Date: Nov 2006	therm throttling question i have a 3.0 prescott on the socket 478. in my BIOS options i see a therm throttling setting. 25%, 50%, and 75%. what would changing this setting do. does it have to do with the load on the cpu or what? thanks in advance. have a good one! Yogurt __________________ AMD Phenom II x6 1055t OCZ DDR3-1333 4GB MSI TwinFrozr 3 560ti PC Power&Cooling Silencer MKII 750 Corsair Carbide 300R
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09-16-07, 12:31 AM	Thread Starter #3
de_yogurt Join Date: Nov 2006	right i knew that. by load i meant how hot the cpu would get from working to hard. so what do the %'s mean (ex like if the cpu is at 50% usage, it starts the therm throttle)? just wondering what i can do so my cpu runs closer to the actual clock. thanks. have a good one! Yogurt __________________ AMD Phenom II x6 1055t OCZ DDR3-1333 4GB MSI TwinFrozr 3 560ti PC Power&Cooling Silencer MKII 750 Corsair Carbide 300R
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09-16-07, 02:05 PM	#4
th3 Member Join Date: Aug 2007	No, the CPU will not throttle before it has reached a certain temperature, with normal cooling it should never get to that point even with 100% continuous load. I guess this setting specifies how much it should throttle down IF overheating occurs, and in any case it will not have any impact on performance.
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