Personal computing discussed
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morphine wrote:You should first look in your BIOS and make sure that the Cool'n'Quiet functionality is enabled. That will throttle your fan speeds. In tandem with that, you should install the AMD CPU driver in order to automatically reduce clockspeed and voltage when idle. See here link, just as soon as the website stops being slow.
Flying Fox wrote:I don't think you need the AMD CPU for Windows 7?
potatochobit wrote:there is absolutely no reason for you ever to mod fan speeds slower than stock settings on a CPU
solitudinalcomp wrote:I applied the settings you suggested - all that happened was that my computer went into sleep mode during the night and then I wasn't able to wake it this morning (no response from keyboard or mouse!).