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Jay H

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Couple BIOS questions since my qs in my other thread seems to be getting buried:

1)Is there a way to check the CPU Temp, etc from windows rather than from the BIOS settings, i.e. would I be able to find out the CPU temp without having to reboot and go into Bios?

2)What's a good setting to set the CPU temp warning/shutdown? I have an EPoX 8kha+ DDR board with a AMD

1gig t'bird CPU and an Enlight case with a front chassis fan, and an Enermax 350W PSU with a var. Fan on the bottom and the back.

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Liam S

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I use Hmonitor. It's a little program that runs in the system tray and its icon there tells you what temp the CPU is at. You can find it here.
I have a 1.2 Athlon and I've got the warning set at 55C (it'll display the temp with a yellow background, and if you want you can set it to play a WAV file), and in my BIOS I have it set to shutdown at 60C.
 

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Thanks, I'll have to check that out... Now I'll see how much warmer my room gets after 5 hours of Civ III.... ;)
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Silly question.

I downloaded that app, and have it running. It has a red flag over my core voltage +1.78. What should the core voltage be?

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I've found that the official Vcore value for AMD Tbird is
Athlon TBird : 1.7V, 1.75V
Probably flags it if it is any greater than 1.75v or lesser than 1.7v
BTW, I found a freeware moniter than seems to be compatible with the Winbond sensor I think is in the EPoX 8kha+ (Winbond 83697HF). Going to see how good that is, really I'm more interested in peaking at that temp every now and then rather than have a background process running. The one I found is here:
http://web.bham.ac.uk/jst829/mbprobe/about.html
Going to download both that and Hmonitor and compare the readme files and stuff..
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Jay H

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Another Bios question, will playing with your "System Performance" field (AwardBIOS 6.0) which has selections for "normal, fast, fastest, turbo" affect your overall speed.

Is it noticeable? I was wondering if I can safely up that default value and see if the machine is still stable and plodding along.... Guess it's worth a shot to see if there is any noticeable difference...

I am going to be downloading some PC benchmarks (alot of people use SiSoft's Sandra on the Anandtech boards) and record everything before I start to tinker.

Jay
 

Samuel Des

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will playing with your "System Performance" field (AwardBIOS 6.0) which has selections for "normal, fast, fastest, turbo" affect your overall speed.
Jay, I'm not certain, but I think the turbo setting will actually SLOW your computer. I remember that the turbo setting in my old Pentium was used when a program ran "too quick."

You may wish to enable fast and fastest. These sound like they may actually mean what they say. I can't find the manual online.... Let us know what you find out!
 

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