X2 CPU Temp

[PsychoDuck]

I know this may sound like a silly question but has anyone experienced increased CPU temp after installing AMDs X2 driver from their website. I have noticed that my idle temp has gone from 34C to 48C after installing the AMD driver. If I remove the AMD driver, the CPU temp reverts back to 34C at idle. I am using ASUS Probe to measure the CPU temp. Could it be that the AMD driver just affects the reading through the Asus software.

 

[turbotoaster]

I know this may sound like a silly question but has anyone experienced increased CPU temp after installing AMDs X2 driver from their website. I have noticed that my idle temp has gone from 34C to 48C after installing the AMD driver. If I remove the AMD driver, the CPU temp reverts back to 34C at idle. I am using ASUS Probe to measure the CPU temp. Could it be that the AMD driver just affects the reading through the Asus software.

i know it sounds daft, but by installing the driver you are in effect'waking the other core up' which would lead to an increase in temp i would think, but not from 34c to 48c, let your PC cool down for 10 minutes, boot it up and go straight into the bios, and look at your temps, remember your cpu is under load in the bios so be as quick as ya can and it will give ya an idea, if it look better, try a different temp monitor program, ie MBM5 or speedfan

 

[PsychoDuck]

Have tried this already, CPU temp was at 48C in asus probe, restarted and went straight into the bios, CPU was at 36C 15 seconds later.

 

[turbotoaster]

Have tried this already, CPU temp was at 48C in asus probe, restarted and went straight into the bios, CPU was at 36C 15 seconds later.

only thing ya could do is reinstall windows, as it will automatically pick up that its a dual core and give ya 2 graphs in task manager, also it would clear any rubbish that may be trying to attach itself to your cpu

ive heard of programs that hack onto 1 core of a dual core and use it, most people dont know cause they arnt watching temps, and are using the other core

 

[PARUK]

PsychoDuck - do you really need the AMD X2 driver anyway?

If you're not using C&Q, the only useful thing the driver does is add /usepmtimer to your boot.ini, to fix synchronisation problems that occur when you have two cores. You can uninstall the driver and add the /usepmtimer directive manually (assuming the uninstall removes th edirective - it may not).

When I swapped my Winie 3000+ for a 3800+ X2, XP Pro SP2 spotted the change in CPU and loaded the mutliprocessor HAL automatically. After the reboot I had two graphs in Task Manager. All I did then was add /usepmtimer switch to boot.ini like so:

1) control panel -> System
2) Advanced tab -> Startup and recovery settings
3) Hit edit and make sure /usepmtimer is on the line that references your OS installation.

And that was it. No AMD X2 driver, two cores functioning perfectly, and no weird sync problems.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

PsychoDuck - do you really need the AMD X2 driver anyway?

If you're not using C&Q, the only useful thing the driver does is add /usepmtimer to your boot.ini, to fix synchronisation problems that occur when you have two cores. You can uninstall the driver and add the /usepmtimer directive manually (assuming the uninstall removes th edirective - it may not).

When I swapped my Winie 3000+ for a 3800+ X2, XP Pro SP2 spotted the change in CPU and loaded the mutliprocessor HAL automatically. After the reboot I had two graphs in Task Manager. All I did then was add /usepmtimer switch to boot.ini like so:

1) control panel -> System
2) Advanced tab -> Startup and recovery settings
3) Hit edit and make sure /usepmtimer is on the line that references your OS installation.

And that was it. No AMD X2 driver, two cores functioning perfectly, and no weird sync problems.

whats C&Q , And usepmtimer?

 

[PARUK]

C&Q - Cool and quiet, reduces CPU speed and power consumption when idle. Great news if you're running at stock, can be bad news if you're overclocked.

/usepmtimer - forces the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to use the ACPI Power Management Timer (P M Timer), which should provide a consistent timer when you have a dual core or hyper-threading cpu. Without this, quite a number of programs and games can exhibit erratic behavior. I noticed Thunderbird giving timeout errors until I added the /usepmtimer switch.

 

[PsychoDuck]

Since removing the AMD driver I havent had any problems was more just curious as I want to increase my overclock and was wondering which temperature was correct as to not push things too far. Also I wanted to see if anyone else has had this problem as it cant just be me.