notoriousformula
10-20-2003, 08:55 PM
X-bit Labs has kicked up a new review on AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU.
CPUs use special technologies reducing the heat dissipation significantly under low workloads as well. Besides, AMD Athlon 64 processor know to switch to the Halt/Stop Grant mode when the HALT command is performed. As a result, the processor temperature gets dramatically lower if it is not loaded 100%. However, now AMD has made another big move forward. The new Athlon 64 processors feature an even more intellectual algorithm for lowering the heat dissipation.
Halt/Stop Grant, AMD Athlon 64 knows to reduce the working frequency and the Vcore in order to lower the heat dissipation even more. When this technology is enabled the processor driver manages the CPU clock frequency, by either reducing it or increasing according to the recent information about the CPU workload at that particular moment of time. Of course, if the CPU copes with the work successfully, and its workload is below 100%, its clock frequency can be reduced without affecting the overall system performance. For example, when the system is idle, when you work in office applications, watch video or perform disk defragmentation and the like, the processor doesn’t use all its power. This is exactly the case when the processor driver transfers Athlon 64 to a lower working frequency. As soon as full processor power needs to be involved, for instance in games, for complex calculations or data encoding, the processor clock frequency is returned back to the nominal. This is how Cool’n’Quiet technology actually works.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/athlon64-3200/cpuz-800.png
read on here (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-3200.html)
CPUs use special technologies reducing the heat dissipation significantly under low workloads as well. Besides, AMD Athlon 64 processor know to switch to the Halt/Stop Grant mode when the HALT command is performed. As a result, the processor temperature gets dramatically lower if it is not loaded 100%. However, now AMD has made another big move forward. The new Athlon 64 processors feature an even more intellectual algorithm for lowering the heat dissipation.
Halt/Stop Grant, AMD Athlon 64 knows to reduce the working frequency and the Vcore in order to lower the heat dissipation even more. When this technology is enabled the processor driver manages the CPU clock frequency, by either reducing it or increasing according to the recent information about the CPU workload at that particular moment of time. Of course, if the CPU copes with the work successfully, and its workload is below 100%, its clock frequency can be reduced without affecting the overall system performance. For example, when the system is idle, when you work in office applications, watch video or perform disk defragmentation and the like, the processor doesn’t use all its power. This is exactly the case when the processor driver transfers Athlon 64 to a lower working frequency. As soon as full processor power needs to be involved, for instance in games, for complex calculations or data encoding, the processor clock frequency is returned back to the nominal. This is how Cool’n’Quiet technology actually works.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/athlon64-3200/cpuz-800.png
read on here (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-3200.html)