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Re: AMD's PowerNow?



On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:32:03PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Then I must have completely misunderstood about speed-step - I didn't think
> it could do anything about voltage.  And if you only slow the clock, can you
> really get any saving in a busy loop over the use of idle?

Even if you're idling properly you're still going to want to wake up
every once in a while to do stuff - housekeeping of various kinds, for
example.

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