On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:11:28AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>...
> so before you had for one second "20% expensive, 80% low power"
> now you have for one second "20% expensive, 20% throttle power, 60% low
> power"
>
> since throttle power is higher than low/idle power.. you lose.
So what is the intended use case?
Is it for people who bought an Intel Heating 4 but forgot to buy an
appropriate cooling?
That sounds absurd.
There must be a reason why Intels CPUs support this throttling?
cu
Adrian
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