JP Vossen on 1 Sep 2008 12:57:42 -0700 |
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:28:19 -0400 > From: Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] CPU Frequency scaling in PE750? On Sunday 31 August 2008, JP Vossen wrote: >> Any other suggestions for keeping power use and heat down using these >> PE750s? > > This is a "Prescott" core, which had such bad thermal & power > characteristics that it finally convinced Intel to throw the Pentium 4 > design in the bin*. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot you can do > about it, since only the mobile versions had frequency scaling. Figures. Thanks for confirming. > If you're desperate, you might be able to underclock the chip by > manually lowering the FSB speed in the BIOS, but the performance > penalty will be significant. Not that desperate. > * This was probably the third best place to put the Pentium 4 > "NetBurst" architecture, with the second and first being Yucca > Mountain and the 8th circle of Hell, respectively. But wait, if you store them in Yucca Mountain, won't they get all nuked and contaminated? Oh, wait... ;-) And wouldn't the 9th circle be better? At least they'd stay cool....... Thanks again, JP ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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