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To: TigerPaw who wrote (298932)	8/8/2006 6:49:46 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575047

"but I think Turions use about 30-35 watts of power." 25w or 35. And that includes the memory controller, which is on the chipset for the Intel chips. While some PentiumMs are rated for under 10 watts, they run at about 1GHz. There are some AMD chips rated for the same power consumption at a similar speed, but they are aimed at blade servers. It is just another P-state. On all of these chips you can throttle down and drop the voltage for considerable power savings. Now when the CPU is running flat out, a system with an equivalent PentiumM will burn less power than the equivalent Turion. But the difference is s few watts.