Activate Cool'n'Quiet?

[nwg]

In that little case I wouldn't even debate it, and would want all case fans running full steam ahead.

There is just one 120mm fan at the back. It sucks the cool air from the front over the hard disks and pcu and out the back.

[Chewy]

I have one of those 120mm fans, very impressed with it, I usually leave side off the case until I finish with final hardware, when I put the side on it the temps went down!

[UncasMS]

it's no benefit to have it

i must disagree

c&q does not only cool your system down but it also saves energy/reduces power consumption

so it is useful at any time when it is not slowing anything down

[Chewy]

turning a computer off when you aren't using for any length of time is the ultimate power savings

[UncasMS]

i wasnt talking of power consumption when not using my pc

but when running normal applications like now: firefox, firewall, antivirus, everest, graphic app, ... c&q runs my cpu at only half the speed and thus cooler and less energy consuming

[mill]

pretty interesting thread

[anonymez]

enable cnq, unless oc'ing

[mill]

Thanks Anonymez, the closest im going to get to overclocking for now would have to be turning off unneaded services,lol

[anonymez]

yup, don't want to hurt the new hardware till you want an excuse to go socket AM2

[mill]

I wasn't aware of that, whats that going to support 4 cores? Technology is moving way to fast for me

[UncasMS]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2688

[mill]

Thanks for the link UncasMS, I should have waited to buy my 939 could have save a couple bucks. That new socket going to change everthing. I guess learning to benchmark and oc is in the near future for me, lol