15 Apr
2007
15 Apr
'07
10:41 p.m.
On Sunday 15 April 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
How necessary is it to run this gem on a desktop with a constant power supply? It doesn't seem to be all that useful, except if there's some significant power consumption advantage to lowering the cpu speed. Doesn't the CPU run at full speed unless throttled down by temperature, or is that what this thing does (for desktops)?
Thanks.
Power comsumption is the whole point... Laptop or desktop doesn't matter. A watt saved is a watt saved. My system takes about 420W when under heavy load - idle the cpus clock down - it drops to around half. At least to me, that's worth running a program that comes for free with your distro :-)
Petre.