Comments on: Origami Power Wars http://www.umpcportal.com/2006/03/origami-power-wars/ portable pc, mobile computer, pocket pc and handheld computing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chippy http://www.umpcportal.com/2006/03/origami-power-wars/#comment-288 Chippy Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:15:00 +0000 http://www2.umpcportal.com/?p=1481#comment-288 Anon. <br/>Thanks for the feedback.<br/><br/>When I wrote that I did double check those figures. There are some tests out there that show huge drain figures (on overclocked processors) but I take your point. Max TDP for any of the AMD range was 125W. <br/><br/>The point to make though is that UMPCs must only use a tiny fraction of the power of desktops. The Vega I tested last week was taking an average of 8w under load/screen on which is amazingly small.<br/><br/>Regards<br/>Steve

Anon.
Thanks for the feedback.

When I wrote that I did double check those figures. There are some tests out there that show huge drain figures (on overclocked processors) but I take your point. Max TDP for any of the AMD range was 125W.

The point to make though is that UMPCs must only use a tiny fraction of the power of desktops. The Vega I tested last week was taking an average of 8w under load/screen on which is amazingly small.

Regards
Steve

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.umpcportal.com/2006/03/origami-power-wars/#comment-287 Anonymous Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:15:00 +0000 http://www2.umpcportal.com/?p=1481#comment-287 Quote, "The top-end Dual-core AMD processors can use 200Watts on their own."<br/><br/>Patently untrue. The top end Systems (with a gaming video card) are in the low 200s.<br/><br/>The irony is before the Core desktop parts, it was Intel that used the most power with its P4 parts!<br/><br/>TDP for the Athlon 64 family was around 89 watts. The P4 desktop parts were in the 100W range.<br/><br/>See this review of the Core 2 Duo processors. It has PC system power draw numbers comparing AMD and Intel over various CPU families. http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=16

Quote, “The top-end Dual-core AMD processors can use 200Watts on their own.”

Patently untrue. The top end Systems (with a gaming video card) are in the low 200s.

The irony is before the Core desktop parts, it was Intel that used the most power with its P4 parts!

TDP for the Athlon 64 family was around 89 watts. The P4 desktop parts were in the 100W range.

See this review of the Core 2 Duo processors. It has PC system power draw numbers comparing AMD and Intel over various CPU families. http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=16

]]> By: Anton P. Nym http://www.umpcportal.com/2006/03/origami-power-wars/#comment-37 Anton P. Nym Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:51:00 +0000 http://www2.umpcportal.com/?p=1481#comment-37 I'll second that motion; excellent article. Thanks!<br/><br/> -- Steve

I’ll second that motion; excellent article. Thanks!

— Steve

]]> By: CTitanic http://www.umpcportal.com/2006/03/origami-power-wars/#comment-36 CTitanic Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:55:00 +0000 http://www2.umpcportal.com/?p=1481#comment-36 Wonderful article!

Wonderful article!

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