low power linux box

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> 
>> now here's my issue.  my linux box will probably stay running 24/7.  i
>> want
>> something that consumes as little power as possible.  my current machine
>> is
>> an athlon xp 2400.  i notice if i leaving running all the time, my
>> electric bill is substantially higher and my house is noticably warmer.
>> 
>> on the other hand, i will be compiling from sources often (especially KDE
>> stuff), so i need something beefy.  are there any low power, but high
>> performance options out there?
> 
> How about Athlon 64 with 'Cool & Quiet'?  The peak spec is 89W - and
> it goes down to 22W (at 1GHz low freq mode.)
> 
> Checkout:
> http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page1.html
> http://www.silentpcreview.com/article172-page1.html
> 
>http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30430.pdf 
> 
> And linux/FC2 has powernow-k8 driver to govern the
> cpu-frequency-scaling.  Not sure if this driver is enabled in FC2-i386
> (but I believe it is enabled in FC2-x86_64).

Satish, good read, thanks for the links.

d l, i don't know about using a PS2 as a home computer...seems kinda "hacky"
to me...=)