On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:11:09PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 02:34:14PM +0000, eduado tongson wrote:
> > 
> > Make your athlon a bit cooler 
> >
> [ snipped setpci instructions ]
> 
> Cool. I checked the manual page of setpci and can't figure out exactly
> what the instructions mean, though, which is probably expected because
> the tail ends of all the commands are hardware-level operations.  Would
> you have any document that explains what these otherwise
> incomprehensible commands do to achive the claimed CPU cooling on
> Athlons?
> 
> I'm also curious: Do they affect the performance of CPU-intensive
> operations? Do they make any difference if the CPU is utilized 100% all
> the time, as is the case with all my 24x7 machines that run dnetc
> (distributed.net client)?
 

got them here 
http://libertonia.escomposlinux.org/story/2002/8/17/155758/556
http://cip.uni-trier.de/nofftz/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html
and some forums 

Based on user posts they wont affect CPU-intensive operations.
A FoldingatHome user had some problems with the tweak 
so maybe running dnet plus the tweak may run you into troubles. 

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