I've disabled cool n quiet in bios, and in windows, set 'turn off hard disk' to 'never' in power options/advanced settings. I find my pc is a lot snappier in loading things now. Since the hard drive is now never going into idle, and the cpu is running all the time at full speed at my overclock of 3.7ghz, are my electric bills going to be a lot more?
Disabling cool n quiet
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more but i doubt you would notice, its running more stuff?
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your probably looking at £25-50 a year depending on how good cool and quiet is, and how much you use your computer.
personally i'd re-enable cool and quiet because it makes no noticeable difference to performance but saves a bunch of money. its almost certainly the hard drive being permanently up to speed thats getting you the extra speed
personally i'd re-enable cool and quiet because it makes no noticeable difference to performance but saves a bunch of money. its almost certainly the hard drive being permanently up to speed thats getting you the extra speed
£25 to £50 a year is quite a lot. Ok, I'll re-enable cool n quiet. I did notice a difference though when disabling it as icons in folders were instantaneously showing instead of filling up gradually.
So with cool n quiet re-enabled, does just the hard drive being constantly awake and never going to idle mode make much less difference to electric bills?
So with cool n quiet re-enabled, does just the hard drive being constantly awake and never going to idle mode make much less difference to electric bills?
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i have literally no idea, sorry. i'm also very surprised that cool and quiet is making it noticeably slower. whenever a resonably big load is put on the processor its supposed to increase its speed instantly
I'm assuming it's because your HDD is constantly spinning your system feels snappier as the drive doesn't need to speed up before it starts moving files to the RAM. As long as you keep the HDD awake even with C'n'Q enabled the system should still feel quite snappy.