On 1/24/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:22, Tom Dombrosky wrote: > > On 1/24/06, Steve Adeff <[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. > > > > Tom > > interesting, are the power savings of a mobile CPU that great over the desktop > version? What are the tradeoffs of going this route?
The power savings are so small as to not be meaningull in a desktop. I'm sure the unstated goal here is heat and fan noise reduction. -- ----------JSA--------- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
