Re: Support AMD Low power CPU (BIOS update)

Denny Wheeler <> wrote in message news:<>. ..
> What CPUs would be the 'low power CPU' mentioned?

This morning, in "Linux Journal", I was reading about Industrial Light
and Magic's render-farm, which uses semi-custom Linux machines from
Rack Saver. This is recent stuff, built to render 'The Hulk.'

They made mention of using an obscure (but production) low-power
Athlon 1600 in order to try and keep the racks and room cooler and
to reduce power consumption in the hundreds of systems that crowd
the space.

I was surprised that they went 'only' for 1600's but I guess it
isn't so much a question of out-and-out speed on any one process
but rather the ability to run a boat-load of simultaneous rendering
threads and processes.

There were no further details. Whether this was an early T-Bred
or some other beast (maybe targeted for laptops) wasn't clear
to me.

So I wonder if this is the 'low power' variant being mentioned?

Greg