Re: [PATCH] Add p4-clockmod driver in x86-64

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:59 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> I am one of the members of the robotic soccer team from the University 
> of Oporto, and a couple of months ago we were looking for new 
> motherboards for our robots, because we are starting to need new 
> hardware (on-board lan, usb2.0, etc.).
> 
> We really don't need excepcional performance, but we really, really need 
> low power consumption, so lowering the clock on a standard mainboard 
> seemed to be the best cost/performance scenario.
> 
> Could this driver be used to keep a standard p4 processor at say 25% 
> clock speed at all times?
> 

Why don't you try the VIA EPIA mini-ITX boards?  These are designed for
low power applications like yours.  I am running the M-6000 which has a
fanless 600Mhz C3 processor, the newer fanless models run at 1Ghz.  And,
on top of that they support speed scaling so you can slow it down even
more.

Lee 

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