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PC Power Management, ACPI Explained In Detail

Posted by kdawson on from the less-power-to-him dept.

DK writes "Computer performance has increased steadily in recent years, and unfortunately so has power consumption. An ultimate gaming system equipped with a quad-core processor, two NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, 4 sticks of DDR2 memory, and a few hard drives can easily consume 500W without doing anything! To reduce power wastage, the industry standards APM and ACPI have been developed to make our computers work more efficiently. ACPI is the successor of APM and is explained in detail in this article."

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  1. Re:Not worth reading this crap by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Im sick and tired of having to view 11 pages of adds to read an article that could easily fit on one. Easily 6 adds per page.

    You go there to read the article? Damn, I go there to enjoy the ads, and that little article paragraph in the middle? It's pissing me off. It's right in the middle, getting in my way, demanding attention, as if I have nothing better to do than read articles all day.

    Can't there be site with just the ads and no pesky articles?

    And then I found this. Best. Site. Ever.

  2. /. invents time-travel by jb.cancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now tell me what ISA is..

    1. Re:/. invents time-travel by jollyreaper · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now tell me what ISA is.. Jar-Jar Binks personal pronoun, singular.
      --
      Kwisatz Haderach
      Sell the spice to CHOAM
      This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
  3. Re:500W? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You play pong.

  4. Re:Not worth reading this crap by slugstone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell NO, the electricity might leak and run across the floor. Well that what my grampa says.

  5. Million dollar website! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is it genius or insanity? That site is something else at least.. I love this bit in the faq, "With thousands of random tiny coloured dots all over the place, the homepage would look gastly." Yeah, it really managed to avoid that ghastly look.

  6. Obligatory linus quote by josephdrivein · · Score: 4, Funny

    Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.


    From: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds