[wplug] video card power consumption -- Socket-M/Yonah option ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Here's another Intel option ...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127009  

It's the older ICH7 "mobile" -- basically original Centrino.  They
are largely well supported in Linux, although I can't vouch for the
specific "ICH7-M DH".  But it will definitely have "less issues" than
an ICH9.  ;)

Won't comment on the i945G -- you know how I feel about "getting
Intel stuff to just work" with the standard MIT X11 support.  ;)

BTW, that's Socket-M (478), not Pentium 4 (478).  It takes the
"Yonah" processor, latter Celeron-M, Core Solo and Core Duo -- pretty
much always fabbed at 0.65um today.  Not the newer Socket-P "Merom"
processors -- mobile Core 2 Duo.  Yonah was the "original Core"
design, but made mobile-only.  The "Merom" came later, along with the
desktop equivalent.  Yonah only really lacks EM64T -- but EM64T does
do much for you at all (especially not with more than 2GB of RAM on
EM64T, unlike the full AMD64).

You can find Socket-M processors for $80-150, Core Duos are only
$125.  There's still a lot of them out there, especially with
Socket-P now around and charging a bit more.  And they _are_ very
"low power," despite being replaced by Socket-P.  It's largely a
marketing thing with Merom" -- 64-bit v. not.

For mobile, fan is included with the mainboard, instead of the CPU. 
It's a mount consideration (much like BTX was for desktops).


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