nForce2 C0/C1/C2 Cooling Patch

13 Sep, 2004 at 9:55pm ET Article published in Tech

New Generation Order has released an nForce2 patch that allows nForce2 based motherboards to run cooler.

This patch will allow nForce2 chipset based motherboards to use C0/C1/C2 advanced cooling mode instead of the basic S1 and reduce idle temperatures by 5-10c degrees! Supports only Windows XP/2000! Unlike other utilities this is only a device driver (less ram usage) and since nForce2 has BIOS programmed S1 bus disconnection. Other cooling utilities (using S1 mode) are useless with the nForce2 chipset! Use it by your own risk.

Submitted by: csimon

Source: New Generation Order

Comments

13 Sep 2004 ~ 11:03pm csimon I installed it and it does idle way cooler and have had no issues so far.
13 Sep 2004 ~ 11:46pm primesuspect Wait - idle temps on what, the chipset?

Can somebody who is smarter than me please explain how this works?
14 Sep 2004 ~ 12:18am Komete sounds interestinf but I couldn't get it to install I get an installation failed messege.
14 Sep 2004 ~ 1:23am csimon

primesuspect wrote:

Can somebody who is smarter than me please explain how this works?

Forget it brian ...there is no one here smarter than you.

Oh wait ...THRAX!!!
14 Sep 2004 ~ 8:25am KingFish .
14 Sep 2004 ~ 3:32pm EyesOnly

csimon wrote:

Forget it brian ...there is no one here smarter than you.

Oh wait ...THRAX!!!

I'm not so sure of that. Then again i don't know him so i shouldn't say anything.

Does this app work for people using fancontrollers as well or what. THRAX HELP US. Or Geeky1.
14 Sep 2004 ~ 3:42pm KINGPIN I think it will disconnect the processor from clock when idle. MSI boards have already this feature
14 Sep 2004 ~ 4:32pm csimon

EyesOnly wrote:

I'm not so sure of that. Then again i don't know him so i shouldn't say anything.

Does this app work for people using fancontrollers as well or what. THRAX HELP US. Or Geeky1.

It was a pot shot I couldn't resist ...I might delete the comment before he has a chance to see it though. LOL He's know's I'm only joking.

Anyway ...I have fan controllers and yes it works with fan controllers.
I imagine it turns off something that is normally running for no reason when idle ...that's my guess.
14 Sep 2004 ~ 4:33pm csimon

Komete wrote:

sounds interestinf but I couldn't get it to install I get an installation failed messege.

Did you use the bat file that came with it?
I installed in on two machines so far ...all I did was double click on the batch file and it install ok.

Also ....be sure you have a nForce2 chipset based motherboard before trying this.
14 Sep 2004 ~ 6:43pm Komete

Did you use the bat file that came with it?

I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was just trying to run the BAT file from within winrar. I extracted all the files to a folder and ran it again and no problems Thanks
14 Sep 2004 ~ 6:59pm Komete Uhhhh is in my head becouse I rebooted and my cpu temp droped from 40 to 34c and case temp from 27 to 23c.. Anybody else getting results like this?
15 Sep 2004 ~ 9:42am csimon of course!

idle cooling tweaks such as this have not been uncommon and go all the way back as far as the KA7 and Kt7a days which were all via chipsets. nForce2 are newer and it was just a matter of time before someone uncovered a trick such as this. There was an earlier tweak but it messed up the soundstorm audio usually. That's why I waited til something like this to come along.

enjoy!