From: user@example.net   
      
   Wim Cossement wrote:   
   > J.O. Aho wrote:   
      
   >> When it comes to the number of cores depends on how much larger you   
   >> want your   
   >>  power bill to be. As we have working SMP in Linux, 2+ is ok.   
   >   
   > I don't have to pay it but it would be nice to have something that is   
   > capable of using less power when it's not needed.   
      
   There is the low power version of some of the AMD 64bit CPUs, Tomshardware   
   made a test and got to the conclusion that even if they do use less power in   
   idle mode than normal CPUs, they took longer time to perform the task, whihc   
   resulted in that in the long run, you didn't save much power or even used more   
   power by using those low power CPUs (of course it depends much on how high %   
   of idle time you have).   
      
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     //Aho   
      
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