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. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
