Re: VCool - cool your Athlon/Duron during idle

[Dieter Nützel]

Am Montag, 27. August 2001 12:42 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when =
> > idle.
> > This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant =
> > on a
> > desktop system.
>
> Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
> wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)

We are one step further, here in "old" Germany...

http://www.powerplant-for-sale.com/en/index.htm :-)))

> C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
> transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.

I second that.

-Dieter