[LINK] Leave on, or turn off?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> 
>>Getting rid of fans is the key, it's also the key to having any home  
>>servers that are bearable to share a house with but it's getting  
>>harder with modern CPUs.
> 
> 
> When you say "modern CPUs" you're referring to those multi-gigahertz
> huge-cache jobbies that Intel and AMD produce so people can write (and run!)
> increasingly inefficient software through half a dozen layers of emulation
> and hardware abstraction, right?
> 
> The VIA chipsets are kinda spesh for your application. Specific hardware
> implementations of "stuff" (like crypto, MPEG twiddling, etc) useful for things
> like set-top boxes and the like. Small ATX form factor VIA boards can be
> got that'll draw well under 100W during peak load and give rather good
> performance.
> 
> You just need to be running an OS and application suite that isn't horridly
> inefficient.
...should add that over the last 18months...my laptop and disk have
also survived the ravages of Video editing and presentation
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/acs-os-sig.html> though not on a daily basis.

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