[mythtv-users] Brand new hardware

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:13:56PM +1000, Clyde Stubbs wrote:
> CPU - Athlon XP2000+ or faster, but remember faster is hotter is noisier.

Not necessarily. As technology improves, faster processors come out that
draw less power. Looking at the Athlon XP model 6, 8, 10 and "10 with
256kb cache" data sheets on amd.com:

XP 2600+ (model 10) has typical power of 53.7W.
XP 2400+ (model 10 with less cache) has typical power of 53.7W.
XP 3000+ (model 10) has typical power of 58.4W.
XP 2200+ (model 8) has typical power of 61.7W.
XP 2100+ (model 6) has typical power of 64.3W.

So you can see that the slowest of these processors (2100+) runs the
hottest. The 2400+ and 2600+ run the same.

So power increases with clock speed typically, but clock speed and
processor speed are not always linked.

Hamish
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