On Jan 29, 2008 11:57 AM, John Drescher <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> frequency scaling and has lower power consumption.<br>><br>> I dunno. I've never had much luck with frequency scaling.<br>> My guess is that this is the sort of idea (much like<br>> micropartitioning & virtualization) that doesn't play well<br>
> with constant intensive usage.<br>><br></div>I have been using frequency scaling on my dual processor Opterons with<br>mythtv for around 2 years and it works very well. My recently upgraded<br>dual processor dual core 2.6GHz (4 cores total) system with 5 hard<br>
drives and 2 tuners runs at about 1/2 the power at 1GHz as it does<br>when at 2.6GHz where it consumes nearly 300W under full load.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>I have several of the AMD low power BE-2300/2350 Athlon X2 CPUs. They match or outrun my other AMD X2 processors and run way cooler and quieter. I'd recommend these anyday.<br>
<br>Tom<br><br>