tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30278691.post91168500049248329..comments2023-04-03T16:31:18.620+03:00Comments on Emilian Bold's blog: Power-efficient CPU a non-issue ?Emilian Boldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960978131273810766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30278691.post-63956429460993181702008-08-14T09:31:00.000+03:002008-08-14T09:31:00.000+03:00Casper, you are right, saving power is a nice goal...Casper, you are right, saving power is a nice goal both financially and for other reasons: ecological, etc.<BR/><BR/>My post was one-sided for the same reason the CPU makers are one-sided. Nowadays, with this ECO-trend, they focus only on the power-consumption. And this one-track-mind has been with Intel for ages: first it was the Mhz/Ghz war now we have the power-consumption war.<BR/><BR/>Obviously they are just picking what they are good / competitive at and push it on people's throat like the feature that is going to save the world.<BR/><BR/>Saving some power on 100 machines is all nice. But as, I've said, when my CPU consumes less power then my hard-drive or GPU it means we have a problem. The problem is that the CPU manufacturers are hiding their inability to produce faster CPUs behind the "we are working on energy efficiency"-mantra.Emilian Boldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10960978131273810766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30278691.post-34089636670426004482008-08-14T00:00:00.000+03:002008-08-14T00:00:00.000+03:00Power consumption is important for a variety of re...Power consumption is important for a variety of reasons. I used to have 386, 486 and Pentium's who just needed a small cooling plate and a 200W power supply.<BR/><BR/>Over the last 10 years manufacturers have been auto-overclocking from the factory so now you pretty much need 400-600W power supply and even more if you plan on playing games. The end result is that it cost more (you're from Europe, you know how much we pay for electricity around here), it pollutes more, it creates more heat, it makes more noise, it takes more physical space and it puts more stress on the components thus shortening the life time of these.<BR/><BR/>You may not care about this, but when you factor in how many million of computers are used around the world or how terrible it can be to sit in a warm computer lab filled with 50 loud machines, trust me, it does matter. I think you know this, not sure why your post is so one-sided.Casper Banghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493174484116672294noreply@blogger.com