PC Power Management, ACPI Explained In Detail

@ 2007/07/11
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.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/07/11
It has been a while, but finally a new article worth reading from Adrian's

 

 

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