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Intel's Little Falls Atom platform caught on video
Draws less than 40W
VR-Zone has gotten their mitts on an Intel Little Falls ES motherboard with a 1.6GHz Diamondville Atom desktop processor and although there isn't much that we didn't know already about this platform in the video, what's interesting is the power draw.
The PSU they're using doesn't even get enough load to have its fan kick in, and although there's only a SATA hard drive and an optical drive connected to the board, this must almost be a first, as they're running two instances of SuperPI to load the CPU to the max.
Even though the system is under heavy load, it doesn't even break the 40W barrier which should make this a very interesting platform in terms of power efficiency. It's also worth noting that this setup is using Intel's 945GC chipset and according to Intel themselves, using a SiS solution would lower this even further.
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