[Gllug] Underclocking an Athlon

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Edwards [mailto:john_ed at cornerstonelinux.co.uk]
> 
> As the big Athlons have a habit of being as hot as a burning coals 
> when running in a small machine, is there any way to UNDERclock them 
> (eg running a 1.4GHz at 1.2GHz) ?
> 
> I would rather have a 10% slower machine than a dead machine.

You can underclock your chip. On mine I can do it from the BIOS which is
very handy.

What is the temperature of the chip on load. Have a look here and it will
surprise you how high these things can go to although stability would be
long gone before most of these temperatures where reached

http://www.heatsink-guide.com/maxtemp.htm

At the moment mine will run around 35 degrees when GIMPS is running it goes
to fifty. If I am playing Unreal Tournament it has been up to 60 degrees. I
also have 3 20Gb HD's in the machine that has taken the system temperature
up a bit.

Another thing to make sure is that you do not have a cooling short in your
PC. 

harry


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