Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

Lee Revell
2005-08-02T16:09:31Z

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:42 -0400, James Bruce wrote:
> I do like saving power, which is why I run cpu frequency scaling on
> every machine I have that supports it.

My Athlon XP desktop doesn't support frequency scaling but has working
ACPI C-states (at least under Windows) so will run as cool as 31C when
idle (with the CPUIdle utility). Most of the heat comes from the hard
drives anyway, but that's a different story.

This seems pretty cool to me, how much more power does frequency scaling
save over that, assuming you suspend after 5-10 minutes of inactivity
anyway?

Lee