From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 3:40:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95F437B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 03:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA29652; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 03:40:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C4FF2A9.50005@owt.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 03:40:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jud Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cooling Athlon / Linux App References: <95FBK736ZUOQOIRQ621USNGCSPHE1Y.3c4fed0e@sparky> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jud wrote: > 1/24/2002 2:25:21 AM, swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > > >>Jud writes: >> >> >>>I think if you read the VCool documentation, you'll find that the >>> > theory, > >>>at least, is that the Athlon is unable to reach idle mode unless its >>>system bus is disconnected, even when it would otherwise make >>>eminent sense for the CPU to do so because the system isn't busy. >>>VCool purports to set the "Bus Disconnect Enable" bit and so allow >>> > the > >>>CPU to go into idle mode at appropriate times. >>> >>That quoted phrase doesn't appear in google *freebsd* archive except >> > in > >>this thread. If you think that's important and different from the >>CPU_SUSP_HLT mentioned in another msg, please ask about that >> > on -stable > >>or -current or -hackers or -hardware (?); maybe they've missed >>something. I doubt it, but you seem to have physical evidence of it. >> > > I actually don't think it's (supposed to be) any different than > CPU_SUSP_HLT, and I'm a bit mystified as to why VCool seems to > make a difference on my W2K system. I didn't know about > CPU_SUSP_HLT before, so I'll put that in the kernel and see how it > works. > > >>(For the thermal paste, get a piece of hard plastic with a smooth >> > straight > >>edge just a bit wider than the chip and spread it real even but real >>thin. I've put it only on the chip the few times I've done it, but I'm >>thinking that it would be better to spread it only on the heat sink both >>because it is probably rougher and easier to clean the over-spread. >> > I'm > >>guessing that putting it on both surfaces is more apt to leave bubbles.) >> > > I used a razor blade, but the plastic sounds easier to handle. Problems > with the thermal paste application may have been caused by my > manipulating the rather large heatsink and fan combination so as to get > past some nearby capacitors on the motherboard, and then get the @# > $%^*! clip seated - I did some wiggling, which may have introduced > bubbles. Hopefully, practice will make perfect. On my AMDs, I used Artic Silver II. I followed the instructions at http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message