From: Drew Varner <drew.varner@redops.org>
To: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Desktop with DVS
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:42:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081294933.1912.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040329135054.GJ19001@poupinou.org>
Can someone point me to a specific AMD64 desktop that they've gotten to
work with cpufreq (i.e. one with a suitable northbridge)? I'd like to
purchase a cpufreq-savvy desktop.
- Drew
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 08:50, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:17:33PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:36:48PM -0500, Zhijian Lu wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This may be off the loop. But does anyone know if there are
> > > any desktop computers with dynamic voltage scaling capacity?
> >
> > For x86{,_64}: AFAIK there are several choices:
> > - some x86_64 AMD [server] processors and mainboards support
> > voltage scaling,
>
> That is not reserved to server. Most modern UP desktops shipped with AMD64
> do have what is called now 'cool'n quiet' technology, and should be supported
> by the powernow-k8 driver (you have to be sure that itt's enabled, though.
> Some northbridges do not allow this unfortunatelly, even though the processor
> is capable of that).
>
> > - there are some special mainboards which support Intel Pentium M processors
> > - the transmeta efficeon CPU supports dynamic voltage scaling without
> > any operating system interaction
> > - maybe some others (VIA) which I've missed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-06 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-22 18:36 Desktop with DVS Zhijian Lu
2004-03-22 20:17 ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-03-29 13:50 ` Bruno Ducrot
2004-04-06 23:42 ` Drew Varner [this message]
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2004-06-13 10:39 biciolinux
2004-06-13 17:40 ` Sebastian Witt
2004-06-13 18:56 ` Marcin Kałuża
2004-06-13 20:40 ` Sebastian Witt
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