Re: The ultimate TOE design

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 08:26:43 EST


On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 10:29, Lincoln Dale wrote:
> . . . this ignore the realities of power restrictions of PCI today . . .
> sure, one could create a PCI card that takes a power-connector, but that
> don't scale so well either . . .

At 1Ghz the Athlon Geode NX draws about 6W. Thats less than my SCSI
controller. I'm sure its not co-incidence that powerpc shows up on such
boards a lot more than x86 however.


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