[mythtv-users] silent and low-power: AMD or Intel?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu May 28 00:35:35 UTC 2009


> There may be a difference between a CPU at idle and one working fairly hard.
> Since most scaling schemes only clock down when the CPU is idle this may be
> moot.
>
> Intuitively it would seem that lowering the voltage and the clock should
> reduce the power consumption, but if the CPU has to work longer in the
> reduced consumption mode, the total energy required to perform a specific
> task would probably stay pretty much the same.
>
I am most interested in idle power because although my system is on
24/7, greater than 80% of the time it is at idle.

John


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