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Switch to AMD and save the planet
AMD’S 780 Chipset could save the world from environmental melt-down, it has emerged.
The chipset, aimed at gamers and people who want to "manage their digital lives more efficiently", has all kinds of advantages, which are embargoed apparently.
But here’s a taster of the revelations all the tame publishers will bring to you on March the fourth.
The chipset is designed for lower noise levels (which must be important to gamers) and lower power.
How does it use lower power? An energy efficient AMD 780G with Athlon 4850e only uses 42Watts, when idle. Whereas the equivalent Intel machine (idleIntel G33 w/ C2D E4500) uses 52 watts! Gor blimey guvnor!
Imagine the impact it would have if everyone in the world suddenly junked their Intel PCs and replaced them with AMD machines, we were commanded.
Let’s do the sums. In 2005 there were 822.15 million PCs in the world.
If every PC user switched to AMD tomorrow, one year from now the energy savings achieved, based on the energy-efficient AMD design, would be, er, over 72 billion KWh saved per year.
That’s enough electricity to bamboozle a nation the size of Wales with electronic marketing, for at least a week. I’m going to change my PC now!
Hang on, those figures only relate to when the PC is idle. Who buys a games machine to leave it idle? [And if you're not using it, why not turn the bloody thing off and use no Watts at all? - Ed]
What are the figures for when the machine is running, AMD was asked. Er, good question, came the answer from Ian McNaughton, Senior Product Manager, AMD. " I’ll have to find out."
It’s OK. We’re still on the road to enlightenment. Everybody back on the bus. µ
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12 ghz/sec?
Not trying to be rude, but I don't think you understand the term IDLE.

As mentioned, its when you look at a screen reading email, inquirer articles :) , starring at what you just wrote etc. In other words, your computer is doing nothing but refreshing the screen.

It happens more than 90% of the time you use your system.

Understanding that totally changes the perception and summary of this article. 

AT adds: And you may not understand the term 'joke'.
"Idle" means when there is not necessary full CPU => when it is not necessary to increase frequency and voltage => when browsing internet, watching movies, write/code, ... => usually most of the times. 
(if you do not re-encode video, play games or similar the whole time)

Note: with rmclock you can even fix CPU voltage and multiplicator (to have on AMD CPU even lower wattage than in default idle) - which I use even when I re-encode video in background to have quiet PC...

It have some reason...
The 780G chipset is mobile. Designed for Griffin. More people lug their laptops between meetings than their super-duper quad core. Mobile will overtake desktop this year in business especially. Maybe AMD shouldn't be so secretive about the chip.
Without AMD constantly expanding envelope of quality engineering, Intel would have 100 multipler to get 12 ghz/sec, all wasted & useless. AMD is DESIGN Leader, its that simple.

Soon AMD hopes its 3 or more voltage planes will beat undies off of 32 core test platforms, its slow process to do near impossible, yet with 3,4,6, or even 8 planes, it is doubtfull more than 4 cores will ever be needed.

Only way to start is LESS power thruout to hold system stable. Oh, it will be experimental, yet it will be beyond Intels grasp for many,many years.

All Hail Power Effiecientcy. Pray for successful Barcelona developement.

drashek
I wont push for it being true or not. The hottest running (Dell XP, retards put a Prescott in a laptop) and coolest running laptops (my current E1505) I've had have been from Intel. The middle ground has been an AMD. 
I have used AMD mobile procs in a couple of storage servers and had them run a few degrees above ambient.

At any rate, my guess is that this advertisement isn't meant for the average consumer. It's aimed at large businesses. Companies that will be paying twice on processors, once for feeding it and again for cooling the building they're filling. Picture a company that replaces say, 20-50 machines per year. On that level, when also taking over all price into consideration it probably makes alittle more sense.
Let me know how long your system is idling at 5% CPU or less :-)
Gamers will run it at 100+% during their gaming session, but it'll be idle most of the time. Even servers are mostly idle, which is why virtualization is so popular nowadays...it was just a waste of electricity to dedicate a honkin' server to a small app that runs the CPU up to 10% at most :-)
In all other current reviews, the Core2Duo was more, more efficient than AMD. What a joke is this article? The AMD paid?
Switched to Intel today.. AMD is lagging behind with the performance parts.. sad but true.. been looking at performance comparsions between Intel vs. AMD

The Intel 2.4 Ghz Quad was as fast as the AMD 3.0 Ghz quad (wich does not even exist except for overclocking..), and soon there will be 2.6 and 2.8 Ghz intel parts avalible..
Well core blimey GUV! the articles on the INQER related to AMD have been scarce recently and every single one seems to be a good old blighty bitch!

I'm gonna start thinking this is a coup!

lol no wonder you don't get any scoops anymore no one wants to talk to you lol!

Shame you used to get some good inside info aswell :(

Here's to me pressing F5 again tomorrow!
(20 seconds later)
"I’ll have to find out." ~= "not very competitive, I'm afraid."

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