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Originally Posted by al53A  While i agree how neatly speedstep compliments the C2D's COOL (NOT hearing my large diameter slow rotation fans  ) efficiency it was my understanding and experience that its role is to throttle back cpu clock speed to 1.6 GHZ when the PC is idle or if activity falls under a certain threshold rather than being initiated by the cpu's actual temp? |
it actually does both, it will throttle back when the temp hits 81c... there's an old toms hardware video floating around somewhere that shows them removing the HSF from an A-xp, a P3, and a P4 while they're running and the P4 was the only one that survived because it had speedstep
back on topic...congrats to
jhtalisman on 500k
