Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset

Daniel Nofftz (nofftz@castor.uni-trier.de)
Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:24:57 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Timothy Covell wrote:

> Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm all for power-saving. That's
> why I own a Via C3 based system. The Via C3 works
> great as an NFS server and draws 12 Watts max (avg.
> is 6 watts). For just email and web browsing, I'd definitely
> recommend it. I'd also recommend it for a small firewall/router
> system. However, for A/V apps and heavy compiling, it's
> definitely not the way to go [BeOS C3 can handle one
> A/V app at a time, but not several].
>
>
> If the patch is really the way to go, then we should get it
> put into the main distribution. But if it is going to hurt
> my performance, then I'd be happy to stick with vanilla
> kapmd (hlt based) power saving.

eenabling the discconect function causes a performance drop of about 2-3 %
as far as i heared ... but this patch is only for athlon processors on an
board with via chipset ... nothing to do with a via c3 cpu :)
what the patch does is that it make the idle calls take effect on this
combination of chipset and cpu ...

daniel

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