[vdr] Re: [OT] low power CPU and matching mainboard

[Stefaan Coddé <stefaan.codde@pandora.be>]

>Oliver Friedrich wrote:
>> Nicolas Huillard wrote:
>>
>>> | Stefaan Coddé wrote:
>>> |
>>> |> Or, perhaps starting from a faster CPU but slowing it down so that it
>>> |> needs
>>> |> not more then 20W?
>> |
>> |
>> | That's what I would do : select the slower most-advanced die process
>> | (ie. if XP3200+ and XP2800+ are both 0.13 micron, select XP2800) and
>> | slow it down to the appropriate speed (take care of fixed multiplier).
>> | See http://www.silentpcreview.com/ for details. That's called
>> | underclocking / undervolting.
>> |
>
> Or if you understand german read the following source:
> http://www.de.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040903/index.html
>
Ah thanks Oliver but ooh, what a great link Nicolas. That's what I'm gonna
try.
Oh and thanks to AMD to make such thing possible :-)
yahoo  ...eh not the search engine :-)


Stefaan