Messages in this thread | | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:22:41 +0100 |
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On Wednesday, 23. January 2002 20:24, Daniel Nofftz wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Timothy Covell wrote: > > Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm all for power-saving. That's > > why I own a Via C3 based system. The Via C3 works > > great as an NFS server and draws 12 Watts max (avg. > > is 6 watts). For just email and web browsing, I'd definitely > > recommend it. I'd also recommend it for a small firewall/router > > system. However, for A/V apps and heavy compiling, it's > > definitely not the way to go [BeOS C3 can handle one > > A/V app at a time, but not several]. > > > > > > If the patch is really the way to go, then we should get it > > put into the main distribution. But if it is going to hurt > > my performance, then I'd be happy to stick with vanilla > > kapmd (hlt based) power saving. > > eenabling the discconect function causes a performance drop of about 2-3 % > as far as i heared ...
If not smaller. Read the VCool doku.
> but this patch is only for athlon
Athlon and Duron
> processors on an board with via chipset ...
AMD 750/760/maybe MP/MPX, SiS, Ali, Nvidia (?), etc.
> nothing to do with a via c3 cpu :) > what the patch does is that it make the idle calls take effect on this > combination of chipset and cpu ...
YES. Without bus disconnet _NO_ real "idle" (cool CPU's).
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