Hardware manufacturers have also recognized the importance of reducing power Using parts designed for the laptops (such as HDDs and CPUs), which consume minimal.Choosing more efficient parts, with high performance to watt ratios.Lower voltage than the latest and greatest Deliberately choosing low-end parts, as they are often slower and.Undervolting and underclocking: Slower, low voltage chips consume less power.Is directly proportionate to the amount of power it consumes, so reducing heat So, how do you go about reducing heat output? The amount of heat in a system Losses ° and increased heat ° caused by sustained high output. Even the best heatsinks on the market struggle toĬool the hottest processors, and no power supply is immune from the efficiency In heatsinks and power supplies have made it easier to just slap together aįew parts to make a system that is reasonably quiet, but the basic problem, With theĮxception of hard drives, the only sources of noise in a typical PC are fans,Īnd less heat means it’s possible to run fewer, slower and quieter fans. In the end, it’s still not a definitive piece on the subject, but we think it’s a good introduction and overview.īuilding a silent system is all about managing heat intelligently. What’s so hard about that? It’s what we thought too, but correctly documenting all the details turned out to be pretty challenging. Turion 64s work on many desktop socket 754 motherboards. The testing and writing took several weeks. The idea for the article germinated many months ago, but it’s taken all this time to assemble the samples, necessary components and new test gear to bring it to fruition. This article is one of the most demanding we’ve tackled at SPCR in quite a while. It’s a complicated, sprawling piece, far from being the last word on the topic (of Turion 64 on the desktop), but a good intro and overview.

We examine the power efficiency, cost and implementation of Turion 64 ML44, ML40, MT40 and MT34 models, along side Athlon 64-3200+ and Intel Pentium M 770 CPUs.

It seemed to take forever, but our article on running AMD’s mobile 64-bit CPUs on socket 754 desktop boards is finally done.

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