PC Power Management, ACPI Explained In Detail

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @06:05PM 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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Re:Not worth reading this crap by Corporate+Troll · 2007-07-10 18:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The Wikipedia ACPI article is better and doesn't shove crappy adds down your throat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI

True, but do you occasionally donate to Wikipedia? At least I have a clear conscience, because as a matter of fact: I do.