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

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 22, 2008, at 10:47 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> 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.

Whew. At least the folks here seem to understand the laws of physics.  
I didn't know what to say when one of our local "experts" (read:  
gamer) said "I don't understand it, I added two more fans and my frame  
rate didn't increase at all".

Such people are beyond hope IMHO.

beww