CPU Cooler Software

[FZWG]

Appreciate some assistance.

Anyone know of a good CPU cooling software for an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1 GHz?

[Fatal_Exception]

Waterfall and CP Idle are two of the more commonly used, at least when Win95/98 is involved. WinNT and 2000 have built in routines (as does WinXP if I remember correctly). Your motherboard may have implemented "software cooling" at the BIOS level.

Your best bet is to forget about software cooling, make sure that your temps are being monitored properly and install a well designed airflow system. IMHO.


And on the eighth day God said, "OK Murphy, you take over."

[jmichna]

I use VCOOL with W2K and WinXP, and like it (lots of tweaks and settings, plus good defaults if you don't want to tweak).

Having said this, and echoing F-E's comments, software cooling only helps cool when you are using less than 100% of your processor's cycles. If you are runing programs that use 100% of your cpu's time, no software cooling program will reduce the temperature without actually partially throttling back the program which is trying to run (you can set VCOOL to reduce processor cycles to 50% and to 10%, at two different upper temp limits).

Improve your hardware cooling.

Also, regarding Athlons... if you look at AMD's tech literature on Athlons and Athlon XPs, for a given cpu speed, the XPs are significantly cooler. For example, my 1.2mHz TBird at standard vcore puts out 65.7 watts max output, while OC'ed to 1.4mHz at vcore of 1.85 puts out about 85-86 watts.***

The XPs at 1400mHz (1600+ model) puts out 62.8 watts, and at 1667mHz (2000+ model) puts out 70.0 watts maximum output.

Guess what I'm saying is you could pop in a new XP cpu and get cooler right off :D , assuming you want to plunk down the cash and your mobo/bios supports the XP. I'm planning on doing just that, when the XP2000+'s get cheaper.:cool:
jmichna

*** Came across this formula to calculate thermal output:
Max output (W) = (stock max output W)*(OC'ed speed mHz/stock speed mHz)*(OC'ed vcore/stock vcore)^2

Example (for my overclocked cpu at 100% power output):
85.66W=(65.7W)*(1400mHz/1200mHz)*(1.85vcore/1.75vcore)^2

[FZWG]

Thank you for your replies.

Looks like VCool is a likely candidate for the job.

Also checking into a Swiftech MCX370 fan, or something like it.

Have a good week.


:)