H.T.F.C.

Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 May 2008 00:02:51 GMT, John Doe
> <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> put finger to keyboard

I said "voice to the microphone".

>>Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 06:08:53 GMT, John Doe
>>> <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> put finger to keyboard
>>
>>>>The motherboard manual says the BIOS should have options for fan
>>>>speed control but I don't see them.
>>
>>> I think this behaviour may be normal.
>>
>>If it's normal, then they need to update the owner's manual.
>>
>>And enable the QST without having to do a BIOS maintenance
>>startup.
>>
>>I think mine has something to do with the fact I bought an open
>>box product and maybe that the DP35DP is problematic (leading to
>>greater availability of open box products). I'm not whining
>>though, unless something else comes up, it's already been
>>resolved. I really don't mind doing a little electrical work to
>>make the fan run normally.
>
> I think you really need to monitor the fan speed as the CPU's
> temperature rises. All you've said so far is that the fan spins at
> its minimum speed at whatever temperature. As suggested by TM, try
> loading up your CPU with a torture test, eg CPUburn or Prime95.

I monitor lots of stuff. The temperature has exceeded what I
consider to be acceptable without any increase in fan speed. With
the fan speed at about 2000 rpm after the fan speed control wire was
severed, the temperature under that load is almost in the yellow
area in Intel's Desktop Utilities CPU Monitor. Supreme Commander
pushes both cores to about 100% (according to Performance Monitor)
while using a CoreMaximizer utility that evens out the core load.

Speaking of multiple core CPUs and stuff. That utility is
impressive, IMO. Some amateur/shareware/whatever programmer wrote
that little core equalizer utility that distributes Supreme
Commander program threads more evenly across multiple cores. I read
that Intel's Core 2 Duo spreads the load evenly among the cores. And
Chris Taylor and his Gas Powered Games says Supreme Commander is
designed for multiple core CPUs. But, using that utility the game
runs significantly better on my machine, equalizing core usage that
is otherwise unbalanced during play (like 100% - 40%). But hey, at
least the utility is free.