Hello, I'm about to buy a new PC which will be running 24/7. Currently I have the Core2 Duo E6550 (2,33 GHz, 4 MB, 1333 MHz FSB) in mind but I'm a bit nervous about the huge FSB speed. The system will spend most of the time doing nothing and I'd like to save as much power as possible in that state. I don't think Linux-PHC will help me much, because it can't set a lower voltage than the lowest standard voltage on C2Ds. It only saves power when reducing the voltages of every higher clockspeed down to the lowest, but that doesn't apply in my case since the CPU is idle most of the time. (I'll try it anyway)
Another approach would be to lower the FSB. Is it possible from Linux without rebooting? I read about the lfsb utility on sourceforge but the last release is two years old, I wonder if there's something new. Any hints are greatly appreciated. regards, jan PS. The mainboard I plan to buy is the Intel DG33BU, which I hope is supported well from Linux, although I'm not quite sure how big the GMA-3100 <-> X3100 difference is (no gaming, just video playback and compiz). _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
