Re: do Pentium4 & PentiumM consume about the same at their lowest possible freq?

[Roberto De Leo <deleo@unica.it>]

>>why slowing down the CPU at all if it doesn't save you any watt? I guess I'll stop 
>>using it.
>>    
>>
>It is meant to be used under thermal condition where slowing down CPU
>will result in reducing the temperature and not for power savings in
>normal conditions.
>
I thought that power consumption and heat dissipation in the CPU were 
more or less proportional but evidently my belief was too naif  :-)

I guess that the same thing holds for the Athlon64 so prolly centrino is 
the only CPU were I can get a substantial power saving by decreasing the 
freq when I don't need much of it (which is almost always), is this 
correct?

Thanks,
 Roberto