Hey, what's a good tool for checking for throttling? a friend of Mine has a S478 3.4Ghz Prescott, and the thing's hitting 80C.

He's recently been having a few - fairly minor - performance drops, whereby it just seems to hang there for ages and do nothing before coming back to life.

The only thing that's changed is that he's recently started doing a lot of video encoding, so is obviously stressing the system a bit more.

If I run MBM5 or CPU-Z on a P4 that's throttling itself, does it report a lower speed, or not? I would guess not, since the 'throttling' just consists of it skipping cycles - not <i>actually</i> going any slower.

Are there any other tools around to check for throttling?

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Google Throttle Watch

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I use a program called <A HREF="http://www.panopsys.com/Downloads.html" target="_new">ThrottleWatch</A>. It's quick, easy, and to the point.

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Is this thread suppose to cheer us up?

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The idea that a friend of chipdeath's has a scotty @ 80c is not about to cheer me up. It's actually depressing.

is he using the stock thermal goop on the HSF or thermal paste? perhaps take a look at the condition of the HSF and perhaps re-apply (remove the old goop first ofcorse) some thermal paste like arctic silver v and see how thing go.

Im sure ChipDeath would have never thought of that one. BTW, their is nothing wrong with the thermal material that intel uses. In fact its very good.

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Does it stick in my arse well?

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Iv heard its great stuff, im just a little sus how hard it is like if its moved or something it might work against it or not work as it should where as thermal paste is like a propper goo that can be reshaped and wont be bothered by the HSF being moved / removed.

FYI, the intel TIM becomes more pliable with heat. It is fairly self repairing, and has great thermal conductivity.

would you like fries with that, pops?

All i was saying is that it becomes almost useless when the hsf is removed since its been melted into shape and when you reinstall the hsf it wont work as well where as thermal paste can be reworked.

Whats the big deal anyway he wants help not BS arguments - instead of being SHT give someone some help pops.

It's not a PC I've built, or even had much input in. It's a Fujitsu PC that he got through a scheme at work. It was actually an OK deal at the time (basically around 50% off what the price should've been for those components).

Neither he nor I have ever removed the HSF, so I have no idea on the TIM questions. The HS is the same 'radial' design as the one scotty system we have here (at work), so I think it's the Intel stock one. If not, then it's some bulk fujitsu cooler (which would explain the high temp, even for a scotty).

He knows he needs to cool it down. He's going to get a new cooler come payday(end of this week or early next week). Probably an XP-120 or something in that league. He's also possibly getting a new case with better cooling (he could do a lot worse than an Antec P-160 like mine ) So things will improve. He'll also have me helping for all that stuff, so he's well screwed now.

Anyway, he sent me a IM last nite when I wasn't about, but apparently he's run throttlewatch and it claims that Throttling is 100%. I thought that probably was 'ok', but having just launched it on my work PC (a P4C 2.8) I now realise it's not. Very not in fact. I'm suprised his house hasn't burnt down!

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Ive seen temps drop 10c buy changing cases. Also, tell him to order a cheap notebook CPU fan. They are only a few bucks and will fit the NB. It gets hot also.

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BTW, I wasnt being serious about you not thinking of the heatsink being the problem.

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I know what a decent case can do. My temps have dropped loads now I have the Antec P-160. I used to get between 46 - 50C load with my Winchester @ 2.5Ghz/1.43V, but now get Max of 41-42C @ 2.6Ghz/1.46V. (2.7 may soon be on the cards... )

Will consider the NB fan idea, but since it probably won't be overclocked (BIOS had no options - will see if there's a non-fujitsu BIOS that does at some point) I'm not too concerned about it for the moment.

Oh, and being British, I have an excellent sarcasm-radar, so I picked up on the cooler comment. No Worries

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Do it like the old days with nF2 and hard Vdd mod it. Don't tell me you've also gone soft over the years have you?

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