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SubjectRe: The ultimate TOE design
Hi Alan,

At 10:57 PM 16/09/2004, Alan Cox wrote:
>On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 14:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > At 1Ghz the Athlon Geode NX draws about 6W. Thats less than my SCSI
> >
> > Are you sure that's worst case, not average? Worst case is usually
> > much worse on a big CPU like an Athlon, but the power supply
> > has to be sized for it.
>
>You are correct - 6W average 9W TDP, still less than my scsicontroller
>8)

sure -- ok -- that gets you the main processor.
now add to that a Northbridge (perhaps AMD doesnt need that but i'm sure it
still does), Southbridge, DDR-SDRAM, ancilliary chips for doing MAC, PHY, ...

couple that with the voltage of PCI where you're likely to need
step-up/step-down circuits (which aren't 100% efficient themselves), you're
still going to get very close to the limit, if not over it.

... and after all that, the Geode is really designed to be an embedded
processor.
Jeff was implying using garden-variety processors which seem to have large
heatsinks, not to mention cooling fans, not to mention quite significant
heat generation.

we're not _quite_ at the stage of being able to take garden-variety
processors and build-your-own-blade-server using PCI _just_ yet. :-)


cheers,

lincoln.

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