The reason for the poor Atom power consumption is because the chipset is a desktop chipset.
Atom CPU average power is sub-3W but the north bridge alone (ICH) consumes something like 15W. Until Intel comes out with an Atom-specific ICH, power consumption will be less than impressive. Almost all CPU's even the Pentium-III consume very little power under "normal" use e.g. word processing, web browsing, due to the use of halt states. And that's even when there's no underclocking, a regular P-III consumes less than 0.5W when sleeping. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:01 AM, andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at the power usage of the Atom, An eye opener and impressive... > > Is my 3+ year old Athlon64. Using kill-a-watt, my total consumption > for Athlon64 3000, 320Gb SATA HDD, 300Watt Power supply, DVD writer, > AGP external video card, and 1Gb memory: > > Idle - 50watts > Peak - 80watts > > From the review, Atom power peaks at anywhere from 66-72watts and idle > 49-55watts. > > Hey, AMD, repackage athlon64 as a competitor to the Atom... and named > it Retro. :) -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
