[mythtv-users] mATX / micro ATX / ITX

Calvin Dodge caldodge at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 03:50:07 UTC 2007


On 6/14/07, David George <david at thegeorges.us> wrote:
> I have an Asus M2NPV-VM I am pretty impressed with.
>
> Only option with fanless I know of is Via.  I went that road a while
> back.  Nowadays give me an AMD x2 with cool-n-quiet.  I can output

Amen to that!

> is idle it automatically clocks down to 1GHz for even more power and
> heat savings.  Use a 65w processor (there are some 90nm 65w processors)
> or a 65nm processor for best results.

The 65nm CPUs use just 45 watts when running flat out. One caveat -
you need a pretty new kernel to recognize them for Cool 'N Quiet
purposes (F7 kernel qualifies).

Calvin


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