KellyPenley
Technical User
Hi guys,
I want to get a little(a lot would be nice) extra oomph out of my CPU. I have a 1.5 year old Compaq Presario desktop w/768MB RAM and an AMD Athlon XP+2400, and at this point, I haven't done anything in the way of CPU tweaks/overclocking. While searching for something entirely different on another site, something caught my eye. I found a tweak/tool to "Enable bus disconnect bit in the Northbridge" whatever that means. As you can tell I know relatively nothing about overclocking. Anyway, here is the description of the tweak that I found:
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Athlon CPU SoftCooler XMas Edition 1.5 Build 101
Developer's Description:
Significant power savings of the AMD Athlon processor only occurs if the processor is disconnected from the system bus by the Northbridge while in the Halt or Stop Grant state.
The Northbridge can optionally initiate a bus disconnect upon the receipt of a Halt or Stop Grant special cycle. The option of disconnecting is controlled by an enable bits in the Northbridge.
Program key features:
- Enables bus disconnect bit in the Northbridge.
- Full control under Clock Control (CLK_CTL) MSR
that determine the internal clock divisor when
- Athlon system (S2k) bus is disconnected
Supported processors:
AMD Duron, Athlon Processors Model 2,3,4 (w/ limitations)
AMD Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP/MP Processors Model 6 & upper
Supported chipsets:
VIA KT133, KT133A, KLE133, KX133, KM266, KT266, KT266A, KT333, KT333 CF,KT400,KM400, KT600
nVidia nForce series, nForce2 SIS 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 755, 746, 748
AMD 751, 760, 761, 762
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OK, first up, do I want or need to use this? Second, where do I find my chipset spec? Third, do I need a special tool to find out what my CPU is clocking right now?
At this point, I have downloaded the zip, but not installed anything.
Thanks in Advance,
Cosmic
I want to get a little(a lot would be nice) extra oomph out of my CPU. I have a 1.5 year old Compaq Presario desktop w/768MB RAM and an AMD Athlon XP+2400, and at this point, I haven't done anything in the way of CPU tweaks/overclocking. While searching for something entirely different on another site, something caught my eye. I found a tweak/tool to "Enable bus disconnect bit in the Northbridge" whatever that means. As you can tell I know relatively nothing about overclocking. Anyway, here is the description of the tweak that I found:
---------------------------------------------------------
Athlon CPU SoftCooler XMas Edition 1.5 Build 101
Developer's Description:
Significant power savings of the AMD Athlon processor only occurs if the processor is disconnected from the system bus by the Northbridge while in the Halt or Stop Grant state.
The Northbridge can optionally initiate a bus disconnect upon the receipt of a Halt or Stop Grant special cycle. The option of disconnecting is controlled by an enable bits in the Northbridge.
Program key features:
- Enables bus disconnect bit in the Northbridge.
- Full control under Clock Control (CLK_CTL) MSR
that determine the internal clock divisor when
- Athlon system (S2k) bus is disconnected
Supported processors:
AMD Duron, Athlon Processors Model 2,3,4 (w/ limitations)
AMD Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP/MP Processors Model 6 & upper
Supported chipsets:
VIA KT133, KT133A, KLE133, KX133, KM266, KT266, KT266A, KT333, KT333 CF,KT400,KM400, KT600
nVidia nForce series, nForce2 SIS 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 755, 746, 748
AMD 751, 760, 761, 762
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OK, first up, do I want or need to use this? Second, where do I find my chipset spec? Third, do I need a special tool to find out what my CPU is clocking right now?
At this point, I have downloaded the zip, but not installed anything.
Thanks in Advance,
Cosmic
