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[ILUG] Computer power consumption

[ILUG] Computer power consumption

Michael Thompson michaelnt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 22:10:51 IST 2007


On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:50:42 +0100
Cian Davis <davisc at skynet.ie> wrote:

> The obvious solution to me is to get a new enough laptop
> processor (Merom or Turion) - but in my (reasonably
> quick) search, I've found few selling the low wattage
> processors and no-one selling a motherboard with a
> PCI[-Express] slot and that you could put in a standard
> case with a standard PSU. The reason I want that is so I
> can stick on a SATA controller or 2 and hang a few nice
> big discs off them in RAID5.
> 
> Do such motherboards exist or is it just a nutty idea?

Perhaps underclocking a micro-atx motherboard with a
standard processor?



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