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Cooling oddity on the GX630

Discussion in 'MSI' started by worldwise001, Jan 15, 2009.

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Hey all,

I just received my MSI GX630 this afternoon, and was doing some tests on Vista before wiping it, and putting on XP.

As I was doing some initial benchmarks on Vista, I ran SpeedFan at the same time to monitor the temperature, mainly out of curiosity's sake. After the benchmarking, I fiddled around with "ECO mode", and noticed the temperature for the CPU idle at around 44C, while the GPU would idle at around 48C.

Now I'm in XP (all the drivers installed fine btw, everything works besides "ECO mode"), and I started up SpeedFan, only to notice the CPU now idle at around 49C, and the GPU at 56C. SpeedFan also shows more temperature readings in XP than in Vista.

Am I missing something vitally important here? In Vista, I probably had 10 more processes running, plus Aero enabled, plus using about 2x the memory as I am now, yet SpeedFan reports lower tempartures in Vista than XP.

The only possible explanation I have for this is that ECO mode actually is quite effective.

Anyone else care to share their thoughts here?

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worldwise001 said: ↑

Hey all,

I just received my MSI GX630 this afternoon, and was doing some tests on Vista before wiping it, and putting on XP.

As I was doing some initial benchmarks on Vista, I ran SpeedFan at the same time to monitor the temperature, mainly out of curiosity's sake. After the benchmarking, I fiddled around with "ECO mode", and noticed the temperature for the CPU idle at around 44C, while the GPU would idle at around 48C.

Now I'm in XP (all the drivers installed fine btw, everything works besides "ECO mode"), and I started up SpeedFan, only to notice the CPU now idle at around 49C, and the GPU at 56C. SpeedFan also shows more temperature readings in XP than in Vista.

Am I missing something vitally important here? In Vista, I probably had 10 more processes running, plus Aero enabled, plus using about 2x the memory as I am now, yet SpeedFan reports lower tempartures in Vista than XP.

The only possible explanation I have for this is that ECO mode actually is quite effective.

Anyone else care to share their thoughts here?

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ECO mode is not supported in XP, by downgrading you lost the advanced power management features.

[email protected], Jan 15, 2009

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