Satish Balay wrote: > 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, good read, thanks for the links. d l, i don't know about using a PS2 as a home computer...seems kinda "hacky" to me...=)
