Tom Dombrosky wrote: > > On 1/24/06, *Steve Adeff* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:34, Michael Starks wrote: > > I have been thinking of using a laptop CPU to save power on a > new MythTV > > system. Basically, I'd like to be able to use the cpuspeed > daemon to > > drop the CPU speed when there isn't a lot going in. Has anyone > done > > with with a full-size mainboard? Any other tips? > > laptop CPU's use different sockets, etc. I believe some of the new > mini boards > (BTX or something?) use laptop cpu's. I also believe desktop cpu's > support > the cpu speed daemons. > > > > The Athlon laptop cpus use the same socket. They will work fine.
A really minor modificatio can turn a normal Athlon XP into a mobile athlon too - which enables you to use the athcool stuff under linux. It's pretty straight forward and there's plenty of stuff on doing it out there. Dan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users