[mythtv-users] Power Con$umption

Preston Crow pc-mythtv04 at crowcastle.net
Sat Mar 27 19:27:02 EST 2004


> Try using athcool - 
> http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/softwares.html
> It enables powersaving mode on your Athlon.... It's awesome for cooling 
> down your PC too (I saw like a 20 degree C difference)...

Wow!  That makes a *huge* difference.

I enabled that, and it's gone down 11C and is still dropping.

With gentoo:

% emerge athcool
% rc-update add athcool default
% /etc/init.d/athcool start

This should be highlighted in the documentation somewhere.

--PC




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