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

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 18:45:39 UTC 2009


> AFAIK and it was discussed on this list, frequency scaling on Intel is
> only useful to limit a processor from over-heating and will not change
> the power consumption significantly, if at all
>

You are correct.

I have just tested and verified this on with a brand new core2 quad
9650 3.0GHz here at work.

A bare bones system (ASUS P5Q) with 4GB of corsair DDR2 memory netted
58W total system power at idle as measured by a killawatt meter

After setting cpufreq and advanced C states in the bios this was
reduced the wall power to 46W with or without the acpi-cpufreq driver
loaded.

John


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