From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arthur Huillet Subject: Re: Question about AthlonXP on nforce 2 : C2-C3 states Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:55:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20060205165549.0bffebc8.arthur.huillet@agoctrl.org> References: <20060205152120.1688bd7b.arthur.huillet@agoctrl.org> <20060205143742.GA20815@tangens.sinus.cz> <20060205160750.4a1c1b3e.arthur.huillet@agoctrl.org> <20060205154245.GA31112@tangens.sinus.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [84.4.96.230] ([84.4.96.230]:21709 "EHLO Chani.agoctrl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751782AbWBEPzs (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:55:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060205154245.GA31112@tangens.sinus.cz> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Troller Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org > On Athlon boards, I'm successfully using athcool > ( http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/files/athcool-0.3.11.tar.gz ), > it substantially decreases CPU temperature even with C1 due to enabling > "HALT Command detection" bit on the NB. Yes, I've already done that and it does work very well. > HOWEVER, as many ACPI people already said several times, IT MAY BE RISKY AND > you CAN severely DAMAGE YOUR DATA when experimenting with this. I guess so, otherwise the BIOS wouldn't probably be blocking those features. Thanks for the help, I won't test C2-C3 because the temperature results in C1 are already excellent. Now to take a look at cpufreq-nforce2 and have fun with it :) Have a nice day. -- Greetings, A.H.