C&Q: Good thing or bad thing?

Hey there, i just wondered shall i use cool & quite thing with my new Athlon II X4 620 cpu or not. I am not exactly sure if i could save a meaningful energy with that aside of the fact that the fluctating voltage may have a negative impact on the chip. What would you reckon?

I'm sorry if you find my english loosy but i think you got my point.

blackwinterday said:

Hey there, i just wondered shall i use cool & quite thing with my new Athlon II X4 620 cpu or not. I am not exactly sure if i could save a meaningful energy with that aside of the fact that the fluctating voltage may have a negative impact on the chip. What would you reckon?

I'm sorry if you find my english loosy but i think you got my point.

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I turned it off on my 550. Neat idea, but I felt no need for it.

i have it active on my systems and it seems to be a good thing... if i wander away from the computer and everything is idle the cpu throttles down and uses less power and needs less cooling... so it is something of a win on your part to have it on.... as for being bad for the chip.... if anything i see it prolonging the life of the chip unless your overclocking but then you wouldn't have cool n quiet active in the first place.....

It will save you power, and that is certainly not a bad thing. I have heard that older AMD chips had issues with CnQ working properly, but if it functions as advertised in their current CPUs then I don't see any reason not to use it.

I also think the idea is good but i don't like the vcore fluctating every second. Whatever i'll try overclock to 3 ghz without touching the vcore than enable cnq and see what goes on.

blackwinterday said:

I also think the idea is good but i don't like the vcore fluctating every second. Whatever i'll try overclock to 3 ghz without touching the vcore than enable cnq and see what goes on.

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The CPU is designed so that the voltage will be raised or lowered depending on load. It is not a bad thing, nor does it harm the CPU in any way.