[geeks] Speaking of Atom and power usage..

[Bill Bradford]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/17/athlon-64-2000-at-8-watts-outperforms-draws-less-energy-than-a/

"AMD's going through some rough times, no doubt about it, but for fanboys
of the CPU maker (wait, do CPU fanboys still exist?) here's your feel-good
story of the year. The always-thorough Tom's Hardware has pit Intel's
1.6GHz Atom 230 processor against AMD's Athlon 64 2000+, and the results
just might surprise you. The 1GHz Athlon (with a core voltage of 0.90 volts
and a power draw of just 8 watts) managed to best the aforementioned Atom
in both energy consumption and processing power tests. The gurus at Tom's
credited the more modern 790G platform and the highly efficient K8
architecture as big players in the Athlon's strong showing, finally deeming
said chip "more economical, faster and quieter" than the Atom. We know
you're in disbelief -- good thing there are 14 pages of proof waiting in
the read link."

It is sort of misleading though, a lot of the power consumption comes from
the chipset.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas