Biostar BIOS Question

[Dan Rather]

Hello,

I just updated my BIOS and I noticed a new option. My question is what
is CPU Throttling. The default setting is 50%. Is this where it should
be or moved up. I have a Biostar M7NCD motherboard with a AMD Athlon
XP 2100+ CPU. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[kony]

Hello,

I just updated my BIOS and I noticed a new option. My question is what
is CPU Throttling. The default setting is 50%. Is this where it should
be or moved up. I have a Biostar M7NCD motherboard with a AMD Athlon
XP 2100+ CPU. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

50% is fine, in fact the feature should never come into play
since there would have to be some kind of system malfunction or a
very poor heatsink for temp to rise enough, and if temp is rising
then soon enough system would shut down.

One of the problems though is that (IIRC) M7NCD uses a separate
thermal diode in the CPU socket well to take temp, and if a
similar Biostar board I have is any indication, the temp sensor
isn't even tall enough to be near, let alone touch the back of
the CPU to take more accurate readings, inevitably it appears
that it will read too low a temp. Regardless, provided a
suitable heatsink is being used you could just leave the
throttling set to default. Larger values represent active CPU
time, so the higher the number the slower the CPU would cool
down.

 

[Dan Rather]

Thanks for your help Kony.

50% is fine, in fact the feature should never come into play
since there would have to be some kind of system malfunction or a
very poor heatsink for temp to rise enough, and if temp is rising
then soon enough system would shut down.

One of the problems though is that (IIRC) M7NCD uses a separate
thermal diode in the CPU socket well to take temp, and if a
similar Biostar board I have is any indication, the temp sensor
isn't even tall enough to be near, let alone touch the back of
the CPU to take more accurate readings, inevitably it appears
that it will read too low a temp. Regardless, provided a
suitable heatsink is being used you could just leave the
throttling set to default. Larger values represent active CPU
time, so the higher the number the slower the CPU would cool
down.