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eitje |
adjustments to idle are fine, but i need low power consumption under load. :P
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#17, Arh sorry :)
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Shintai
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#19, No worries.
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Retiky
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evermore |
Do organizations that keep thousands of machines running 24x7 use the lowest speed processors? And if they need to keep them running that much, wouldn't they be using them to do work, not idling? And why could they not do the same thing with the higher speed grades? Cache amount wouldn't prevent it, so it must be a market segmentation thing.
Well I suppose a lot of companies just leave desktops for their peons running all the time, but 10W less for 16 hours a day makes a whopping 58KWH less per year, or 14 dollars per PC at 25 cents per KWH. 14 grand for 1000 computers is a lot, but to companies that size it's chump change. I concur, low idle power usage is great, but it's not terribly impressive that they managed to figure out a way to shut off more transistors but still can't reduce the power use when they're active. C2D's overall power usage in and of itself is impressive still though. |
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dragmor |
Good News.
Makes me more likely to go for a 6400 than the 6600. For some reason the 6600 and up were using less power thant the lower models |