[mythtv-users] silent and low-power: AMD or Intel?
Jean-Yves Avenard
jyavenard at gmail.com
Wed May 27 23:11:58 UTC 2009
Hi
2009/5/27 John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>:
> either manufacturer and use cpu frequency scaling. The chip will use
> less than 20W at idle and at the lowest frequency. Also use
> independent drives instead of a raid. That way you may be able to
> power down drives when not in use.
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
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