PhenomX4 9850 Idles at 28 Degrees Centigrades
Things have changed with the current quad-core CPUs. I mean, Intel’s and AMD’s CPUs have interesting overclocking potentials and you have to buy a good air cooler or even make the leap for water-cooled blocks. Well, not necessarily. The Fudzilla have proven that the latest PehnomX4’s can go without special cooling even when they are overclocked to the maximum.
For their experiment, the guys over at Fudzilla played with a PhenomX4 9850 and turned on the improved Cool ’n Quiet feature. In this situation, the air-cooled Phenom 9850 reach 60+ Celsius but once the number-crunching applications are turned off, it idles all the way to 28 – 35 Celsius. So keep in mind that in order to achieve these temperatures you need to activate the Cool and Quiet option on your motherboard and set the energy settings in Windows to energy efficient.
The Fudzilla experimenting team also informs that in Idle mode, Cool’n Quiet downlocks the CPU to 1250MHz with 6.25 multiplier times 200 MHz buss speed. Practically, when you surf the net, read your word documents, write something or listen to some music, the Phenom 9850 will go down to below 40 Celsius while in games it can easily get back to the lower sixties. All this just with a standard cooler. I wonder what water-cooling could do to this CPU.
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