Re: Re:Core2Duo motherboards for power consumption

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Gumbrell wrote:
>   It seems that the Atom processor is currently not achieving it's low
> power potential in a system context due to the very greedy
> Northbridge. No doubt this will be addressed.
>
There's an alternative chipset for the N270 I think, based on one of the
mobile devices, and a very low power chipset for use with the Z-series
Atoms...

> I'd be interested in any steps people have taken to minimise power
> consumption - BIOS tweaks, system settings, is there anything non-
> obvious that can be done - there used to be third party programs to
> get some low power features working but I assume these are now all in
> the BIOS/OS?
>

Use 2.5" drives. They're typically <2.5W while reading/writing
rather
than the ~5-10W a 3.5" drive will use, and <1W idle rather than
~5W+!

Jim

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