Green Machine: AMD Dual-Core Platform at 54W

Mmm, AMD dual core platforms are enough to get anyone’s mouth watering. Tom’s takes us right in there for a bite.

Manufacturers are moving in droves towards ROHS compliant “green” components, as power consumption continues to put performance computing at odds with environmental consciousness. Indeed, if power supplies topping 1000 W are any indication of things to come, your computer may eventually outstrip the power available from a standard socket!

or businesses with hundreds or even thousands of processors gnawing away at the power grid, this waste translates directly into huge power bills. For the rest of us, the conversion from power to heat makes cooling the primary concern. As this heat overwhelms smaller systems, efficiency becomes the common goal in the otherwise divergent home theater, compact PC and mobile gaming markets. But while desktop implementations of Intel’s mobile processors get all the attention from HTPC enthusiasts, and VIA’s compact Epia gets shoved into everything from cars to guitars, AMD remains eerily silent in the PC arena…. Source: TH