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From: Harald Milz <milz@seneca.muc.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Another powernow-k7 patch for Desktop XP-M usage
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:05:05 +0200 (CEST)
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Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> wrote:

> It's a very large latency, preventing to actually making any kind
> of dynamic frequencies really usefull, and since there is no voltage
> scaling, it's IMHO not so usefull for power consuption purpose (though
> this may help for cooling purpose).

After all, power consumption goes sort of linear with frequency, but square
with voltage. Still, better than nothing. 

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