[mythtv-users] CPU power (was Possible small HD frontend)

[John Drescher]

>  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