Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:59:06 +0100 | From | Paulo Marques <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add p4-clockmod driver in x86-64 |
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Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >>.... > Yes. Clock modulation is not as useful compared to enhanced speedstep. > But, > I feel, it should be OK to have the driver, though it is not really > useful > in common case. It may be useful in some exceptional cases.
I think I have one of such cases.
I am one of the members of the robotic soccer team from the University of Oporto, and a couple of months ago we were looking for new motherboards for our robots, because we are starting to need new hardware (on-board lan, usb2.0, etc.).
We really don't need excepcional performance, but we really, really need low power consumption, so lowering the clock on a standard mainboard seemed to be the best cost/performance scenario.
Could this driver be used to keep a standard p4 processor at say 25% clock speed at all times?
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