[mythtv-users] CPU power (was Possible small HD frontend)
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 16:47:34 UTC 2008
> That contradicts the intuitively unobvious info from another poster.
> As I said I find it hard to believe that slowing the clock does not
> reduce power consumption.
>
That may have to do with the different architectures of the two
processors and how much of the processor is shut off when the halt
instruction is executed.
> But the point was also made that at a slower clock a given job will
> take longer, and thus the *total* amount of energy may be the same or
> even higher.
>
I fully agree with that.
John
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