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Intel Overclockers using Windows 7
- Thread starter wickedout
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Are you talking the CPU vcore with an overclocking utility? If so, no I dont. Some people use them to fine tune their overclocks (ie: rough them in closely then dial em in notch by notch in windows).
I personally dont believe in software overclocking, but maybe that stems from the old days when it didnt exist.
I assume by active vs. passive air you are meaning fan vs. no fan on the heatsink? If so, you almost must have active unless you have a heatsink designed for passive and you have good case flow. Once you overclock, its very tough to do this though, especially in the warmer climates.
I personally dont believe in software overclocking, but maybe that stems from the old days when it didnt exist.
I assume by active vs. passive air you are meaning fan vs. no fan on the heatsink? If so, you almost must have active unless you have a heatsink designed for passive and you have good case flow. Once you overclock, its very tough to do this though, especially in the warmer climates.
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Ahh I found it. Im on water, so I really cant comment on whether it works and no I dont use it, sorry! 
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i disable it just to make sure it doesnt effect performance. there have been cases, i have seen, that even disabling say C1E/EIST. windows vista/7 can override those and still use the power saving/underclocking features of the cpu.
for the record yes im using win7 RC still, came from XP-SP2...
for the record yes im using win7 RC still, came from XP-SP2...
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Win 7 @ 3.8ghz on Q9550, i'm on "high performance" and system cooling policy says active.
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System Cooling Policy lets you change the cooling mode of your system. There are 2 options available here. Active increases the fan speed before slowing the processor to maintain cooling, while Passive slows down the processor before cooling the fan speed. Passive saves a lot more power as it reduces the clock on your processor, hence giving your more battery time, taken from...http://www.ithinkdiff.com/different-new-power-saving-options-in-windows-7/
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if you hover over it it says "increase fan speed before slowing processor"
Passive is for laptops on battery. If you set it to passive, it will down clock your cpu rather than spinning up the fan; basically if it gets to hot it will downclock cpu rather than let the fan spin up.
For a desktop, it should be set to active, with cpu max speed at 100%, always. Maybe a media center pc might find passive useful, but IMO its designed for lappys.
Oh and thats a win7 setting, its there no matter what cpu you use. Also, I did not know that windows had any control over the motherboard spinning up or down the fan. It probably downclocks it @certain temps rather than actually reading/controlling the fan speed, but I dont know for sure.
On my asus 1000he netbook (win7), I have it set to passive on battery, active on AC pwr.
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