Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:10:35 +0200 (EET) | From | Liakakis Kostas <> | Subject | Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset |
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On 25 Jan 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > I was getting at this earlier. Though the Athlon XP's are much better > power-wise than the earlier athlon's. I wouldn't suggest doing it to > any athlon under XP. But then again, the XP is supposed to have
I reckon a >1600MHz XP (1800+) has about the same or more power than the 1400MHz T-bird. So it should basically be the same regarding the STPGNT/disconnect.
> something similar to clock stepping to gradually move from full power to > lower power, which decreases mechanical stress and psu stress. I
I guess this is the PowerNOW! feature of the mobile Athlons/Durons with the Palomino core. I think this is totaly different than STPGNT. And this would be worth implementing if it can be supported on desktop Athlon/Duron models/mobos.
Anybody has more info about this?
> remember when the same concerns were brought over the HLT idle trick but > obviously the HLT instruction isn't harmful enough. Would be nice to > look at the latencies with say, Robert Love's preempt stat patch of a > kernel running with no power management, then with HLT, then with the > vcl patch.
True. Although an tv tunner card output on screen tells the tale pretty well :-)
> Nice rule of thumb though. If your cpu _ever_ gets into the 50C range > your case and or hsf is not efficient enough for your hardware. Anything > above 50 and you're shortening the life of the cpu. Relying on idle > tricks isn't going to help you.
I hope everybody could see it this way.
-K.
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