http://rullzer.com/blog/2007/02/09/why-god-why-new-cpu-fan/ an experience beyond Tue, 15 May 2012 23:12:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://rullzer.com/blog/2007/02/09/why-god-why-new-cpu-fan/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Hamster Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:28:37 +0000 http://rullzer.com/blog/2007/02/09/why-god-why-new-cpu-fan/#comment-132 IMHO the BIOS really has hard limit higher than 2400. Smarter BIOSes let you set this limit. Some have problem even detecting low speeds like this and report zero (unless you reprogram the monitoring chip's divisor in lm_sensors), either always zero or randomly, but that doesn't seem to be the case here, if I understand correctly that it shows 2400. Maybe there's an BIOS update available for your motherboard that will lower the limit or even let you change it. Maybe they didn't expect 3-4 years ago that there would be a cooler capable of cooling this CPU with lower speed :) Or were just too precautious. IMHO the BIOS really has hard limit higher than 2400. Smarter BIOSes let you set this limit. Some have problem even detecting low speeds like this and report zero (unless you reprogram the monitoring chip’s divisor in lm_sensors), either always zero or randomly, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here, if I understand correctly that it shows 2400.
Maybe there’s an BIOS update available for your motherboard that will lower the limit or even let you change it. Maybe they didn’t expect 3-4 years ago that there would be a cooler capable of cooling this CPU with lower speed Or were just too precautious.

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