> Tom Dombrosky wrote: > >> >> On 1/24/06, *Steve Adeff* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:34, Michael Starks wrote: >> > I have been thinking of using a laptop CPU to save power on a >> new MythTV >> > system. Basically, I'd like to be able to use the cpuspeed >> daemon to >> > drop the CPU speed when there isn't a lot going in. Has anyone >> done >> > with with a full-size mainboard? Any other tips? >> >> laptop CPU's use different sockets, etc. I believe some of the new >> mini boards >> (BTX or something?) use laptop cpu's. I also believe desktop cpu's >> support >> the cpu speed daemons. >> >> >> >> The Athlon laptop cpus use the same socket. They will work fine. > > A really minor modificatio can turn a normal Athlon XP into a mobile > athlon too - which enables you to use the athcool stuff under linux. > It's pretty straight forward and there's plenty of stuff on doing it out > there. >
What about the 64 family, any mods there? I'm using an Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego (socket 939) which has pretty good voltage/speed stepping, although I'd love to be able to drop the lowest step even more. If anyone knows a mod for that I'd love to know! The kernel module seems to read the stepping info direct from the cpu or bios, and I haven't found a way to manipulate this manually, although googling suggests that a further 10% cut in voltage should be possible. Marius _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
