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minus-square@TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.comlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoWait, people are scared of industrial components? They’re usually the most reliable
minus-squareeltimablolinkfedilink5•1 year agoIirc, a lot of them also have efficiency as a secondary priority, since whatever the chip is running will always be plugged in.
minus-square@TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoSecondary, yes, but the push to claim “muh production line is more green” has probably improved that too. Embedded, low power stuff is quite common. Then again I’m no expert, they could very well still be power hogs
minus-squareeltimablolinkfedilink2•1 year agoYeah, but it usually doesn’t downclock as aggressively, right? Or is that entirely dependent on the CPU scheduler?
minus-square@TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThe scheduler can’t do anything if the hardware isn’t designed to. If the cpu can’t downclock when idle, it won’t, regardless of software
Wait, people are scared of industrial components? They’re usually the most reliable
Iirc, a lot of them also have efficiency as a secondary priority, since whatever the chip is running will always be plugged in.
Secondary, yes, but the push to claim “muh production line is more green” has probably improved that too.
Embedded, low power stuff is quite common.
Then again I’m no expert, they could very well still be power hogs
Yeah, but it usually doesn’t downclock as aggressively, right? Or is that entirely dependent on the CPU scheduler?
The scheduler can’t do anything if the hardware isn’t designed to. If the cpu can’t downclock when idle, it won’t, regardless of software