Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Feb 2006 15:34 UTC, submitted by Michael
"Looking over our EIST results today using a Pentium M 750, Intel's technology certainly has its advantages. Switching between the five power-modes, there was evident change in the CPU temperature as well as the power consumption. In addition, the frequency/voltages immediately scaled appropriately when switching between demanding and non-demanding environments. For those, however, seeking to over-ride the switching process at a low frequency/voltage, in order to conserve the battery life, heat output, and noise will find the performance to be severely hampered. As the last portion of our tests had shown, the compilation time had increased 212%, encoding time 218%, frame-rate had decreased 5FPS, and the Mflops had dropped over 233%."
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When I set my laptop to minimal performance, I don't want to compile, encode, play a demanding game or do some cpu intensive task.
That's when I browse the web, write something, browse images, etc. A drop of 233% performance on the latest AMD or Intel cpu's leaves plenty enough power for simple tasks. The VIA 800MHz servers at home are powerful enough too.