SuperCheetah
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To anyone with a VIA or AMD chipset!!!
Some of you hardcore tweakers have probably seen these, but for some of the newer guys here goes:
A great way to tweak your VIA or AMD chipset is to download a program called WPCREDIT made by a third party, and use it to change registers to do things like lower CPU temperatures by up to 18 degrees! (Mine went down by 17) Also, some users can enable 4-way memory interleaving, amony various other tweaks not offered in the bios to help drastically increase performance. I found this program while browsing over at www.viahardware.com and thought it was only for VIA chipsets, but then I found out it was for my AMD 760 chipset also! There is also one more small program you will have to download to make sure the registers you change will take effect every time you restart your computer. You will need to download the small plug profiles on the Via page and for AMD 760 users like the KG7 series can go here to get the AMD profile:
http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/kg7kr7faq.htm
Anyone interested in trying these tweaks out can either go to:
http://www.viahardware.com/download/viatweak.shtm
or
For the AMD 760 chipset go here:
http://www.mods4me.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=4
These sites contain indepth articles on how to go about changing the different registers and what exactly your changing. I highly recommend this simple little program and the performance gains and temperature drops I got were well worth the effort I put into it. Anyone with a VIA or AMD chipset should definitely look into doing this simple mod and reeping the benefits!!!
Some of you hardcore tweakers have probably seen these, but for some of the newer guys here goes:
A great way to tweak your VIA or AMD chipset is to download a program called WPCREDIT made by a third party, and use it to change registers to do things like lower CPU temperatures by up to 18 degrees! (Mine went down by 17) Also, some users can enable 4-way memory interleaving, amony various other tweaks not offered in the bios to help drastically increase performance. I found this program while browsing over at www.viahardware.com and thought it was only for VIA chipsets, but then I found out it was for my AMD 760 chipset also! There is also one more small program you will have to download to make sure the registers you change will take effect every time you restart your computer. You will need to download the small plug profiles on the Via page and for AMD 760 users like the KG7 series can go here to get the AMD profile:
http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/kg7kr7faq.htm
Anyone interested in trying these tweaks out can either go to:
http://www.viahardware.com/download/viatweak.shtm
or
For the AMD 760 chipset go here:
http://www.mods4me.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=4
These sites contain indepth articles on how to go about changing the different registers and what exactly your changing. I highly recommend this simple little program and the performance gains and temperature drops I got were well worth the effort I put into it. Anyone with a VIA or AMD chipset should definitely look into doing this simple mod and reeping the benefits!!!