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[ProCookie]

The first thing i do when i get a new computer is turn of power options, but im finding that my computer is over heating because its been left on all day. I was wondering if some one could tell me what's the difference between standby and hibernate modes? and will i still be able to download a file when my PC is in one of these modes?

Any help will do because im a total noob when it comes to power options

Thanks

Ant

[felix8406]

In Vista, Standby will do three things: save your work to RAM and to the HD and place your PC in a deep power saving mode. On the other hand, Hibernate (still an option) will save your work to the HD, but not to RAM and then places your PC in a deep power saving mode. The Standby mode is more efficient as it allows you to bring the PC back and running from the power saving mode much faster.

And the answer to your question: "Will i still be able to download a file when my PC is in one of these modes?" The answer is no.

As for your PC overheating issue, I don't think it has anything to do with allowing it to run continuously. That (overhaeting) shouldn't happen, unless you are overclocking the CPU, RAM or graphics card or there's an issue with the cooling fans or control.

[crabby]

I bet your case doesnt even have a input fan Stupid wierd cases.

You should have:

12cm input fan
12cm output fan
12cm CPU fan
12cm GPU fan
12cm power supply fan

then, if your PC isnt around the 26 centigradde mark you have something dodgy

crabby

[Snuffy]

typical for me is
87 degrees Fahrenheit = 30.5 centigrade

[crabby]

My PC runs at 8 degrees fahrenheit above room temperature. So that's usually around 77 fahrenheit or 25 centigrade.

crabby

[ProCookie]

i got a GPU CPU and case fan. i think its overheating anyways because my fan will be quite then all of a sudden it will speed up and make a racket, then if i leave it a little longer it will turn off

[felix8406]

That doesn't necessarily mean that the PC or CPU is overheating. One of the issues with cooling fans is noise; the faster the fan rotate, the more noise it produces. PC manufactures kind of solved this issue by lowering fan’s RPM until the PC has reached a set temperature. When that temperature is exceeded, the fan will rev-up, providing a larger amount of cooling air. As the temp falls back, the fan’s RPM will drop again.

The drop in RPM serves as a sort of troubleshooting medium. For one, if the fan revs up and stays up, there could be an issue with your PC being overheating. If the revs go up momentarily and come back down, it must likely mean that your CPU usage is high. This could be due to too many processes running, a particular program that has issues or some other software related problem.

There can be other causes as well: The room temperature where the PC; added hardware which was not original part of the PC, e.g. video graphics card; air blockage due to PC being too closed to a wall; PC going into standby and coming back from standby too quickly.

[Snuffy]

Some Mobo's have a setting that will turn on/off or set the temp that will go from slow to full... the rattle of the case is expensive in cost but cheap make case... My Expensive "APEVIA" does that , currently I am starting to look/work on a rubber washer to insert between the case and the fans... since I have 4 fans that way... I need 16 rubber washers.

Ant:

Does your mother board bios offer CoolNQuiet (AMD) or
Intel SpeedStep for INTEL? If so, turn it on and it will
throttle back the CPU when not needed, and throttle it
up when it is needed.

[Snuffy]

Subject: Vista Cool'n'Quiet

There is something that anyone looking at CPU speed in Cool'n'Quiet needs to know: If you run anything on the 64bit OS that is 32bit, it will fire up the WOW64 which will in turn peg the cpu speed.

The exact same thing will happen to the previous XP 32 bit OS, when you ran a 16bit app.

It's the translator program that does it.

That being said, it is possible for a given cpu to not have cool'n'quiet enabled, as well as bios not supporting it (though Microsoft supposedly took it over and now controls it, much to the dismay of the AMD engineers who protested vehemently to no avail.)