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What if I want to save power on a desktop

What if I want to save power on a desktop

Posted May 11, 2008 8:56 UTC (Sun) by rganesan (subscriber, #1182)
Parent article: Matthew Garrett on the race to idle

Do desktop CPUs support C states? powertop says that "Detailed C-state information is only
available on Mobile CPUs (laptops)". My desktop is pretty much on most of the time and I run
cpufreq with ondemand governor. With multicore being the way forward, does turning off/on
cores on demand make sense on the desktop? 


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