On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > now here's my issue. my linux box will probably stay running 24/7. i want > something that consumes as little power as possible. my current machine is > an athlon xp 2400. i notice if i leaving running all the time, my electric > bill is substantially higher and my house is noticably warmer. > > on the other hand, i will be compiling from sources often (especially KDE > stuff), so i need something beefy. are there any low power, but high > performance options out there? How about Athlon 64 with 'Cool & Quiet'? The peak spec is 89W - and it goes down to 22W (at 1GHz low freq mode.) Checkout: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page1.html http://www.silentpcreview.com/article172-page1.html http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30430.pdf And linux/FC2 has powernow-k8 driver to govern the cpu-frequency-scaling. Not sure if this driver is enabled in FC2-i386 (but I believe it is enabled in FC2-x86_64). Satish
