[ltp] Buying a T41p

[Morris, Joseph C]

As for the cool and quiet, last night I watched a video on Stanford =
University's website, and it was a presentation from the manager of the =
Hammer project.  He said that they noticed that a lot of things were =
going on   inside the core in a low power state that they hadn't noticed =
before, so the next version of the AMD64 should save many many more =
watts of power by cutting these things out.  Also, he confirmed that the =
Opterons were designed from the start to be dual-core, and that'll be =
interesting to see play out. I'm going on a tangent, sorry!

Joe


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From:	linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org on behalf of Satish Balay
Sent:	Sun 3/28/2004 1:32 AM
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Subject:	Re: [ltp] Buying a T41p


On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Aaron Mulder wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Cameron McCormack wrote:

> > If these Pentium Ms are much better and lower power, why don't
> > they use them in desktop machines?

> 	Because they're more expensive.  The margins are so low on
> desktops that the manufacturers want to squeze every cent out of it,

I agree on this one.

And for an alternative - checkout Athlon64. It should have comparable
performance with the short pipeline and 1MB L2 cache - simiar to P-M.

And it has 'Cool & Quiet' - and some motherboards support it - If the
kernel driver (powernow-k8) works - then cpudyn/cpufreq/other stuff
can bring down the power consumption

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article31-page1.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-3200_4.html

However - I have no personal experience with this stuff.

Satish
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