news 28 Posted August 8, 2008 Curious to know about the recently released AMD 740G chipset? If you are like most of our readers you may not have even heard of it, though it was released weeks ago. URL: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=5998 Quote: "The greatest strength of this platform is likely the power consumption. At idle, with 2GB of memory, a 500 GB HD, a BD drive, and a X2 4050e, the system was pulling a very meager 55 watts from the wall. At full load it was pulling 91 watts. If we consider that the Atom and Nano platforms that Ryan tested last week were around the same idle power, it is impressive to think that a comparatively fast dual core processor with a fairly robust integrated graphics portion is sitting in the same area at idle, and at full bore it is about 20 watts higher than the Nano with its VIA/S3 Chrome based chipset." Thanks for a post! Ryan Shrout Owner - PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com Share this post Link to post
