I've been reading up a lot about this Cool'n'Quiet stuff. I was going to build a desktop Pentium-M based system because low power consumption and low noise is what I'm after. Enhanced SpeedStep adjusts CPU performance in about 20 stages... automatically, down to about 600Mhz - from what I read, it only adjusted the multiplier though. The thermal dissipation of this CPU at 2Ghz is 27W.
Then a little bird said get an Athlon 64 with Cool'n'Quiet, so I looked into this, and the Athlon too, will supposedly clock down to 800Mhz in 5 stages (p-states), but is able to adjust voltage aswell as multiplier. However, I havn't found any figures on what the thermal dissipation is at lower performance setting, as this is likely to influence which way I go.
Anybody able to offer some figures?
Cheers,
Steve
Then a little bird said get an Athlon 64 with Cool'n'Quiet, so I looked into this, and the Athlon too, will supposedly clock down to 800Mhz in 5 stages (p-states), but is able to adjust voltage aswell as multiplier. However, I havn't found any figures on what the thermal dissipation is at lower performance setting, as this is likely to influence which way I go.
Anybody able to offer some figures?
Cheers,
Steve
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