14 DAY TRIAL // If you are reading this, you're probably doing it from a computer, whether it's a notebook, or a gaming station, or even some sort of wreckage at an Internet Cafe, it still is a computer. And the computer you are using is most likely to eat up a lot of power, and if it's a desktop PC, and you're using air-cooling, it's probably noisy, and so on. Times like these make you think of the days when computers weren't generally available at every street corner, and our lives didn't depend that much on them.
I recall my first computer, it was a Pentium I running at 166MHz, the first with MMX instructions, codenamed P55C, the last one to get numbers, after that there were the Pentium II processors, Klamath core, as I remember correctly. The CPU had a power dissipation between 13 and 17W, mine I believe had somewhere around 14W, although I never actually measured the output on it. Anyway, the cooler used to break down pretty often, and one time it froze, stopped spinning, and the computer ran for a week before I realized that it made a lot less noise, so I opened it up an it was still working, even with a fried cooler.
Some time ago, there was a test being done by tomshardware.com, they wanted to find out what would happen to a processor if the cooler would fail. And those little clips became "legendary" among PC users, helping a lot of people turn their attention to certain processors, and away from others. Now the industry has evolved into some sort of "monster", and a saying comes to mind, "they don't make them as they used to." But some have kept "the old ways" in mind and brought them into the present.
One of the companies is VIA Technologies, which has always been known for its chipsets, and less known for the VIA C series of processors. From this line of processors, VIA's latest CPU is the C7-D model, the world's first Carbon Free computer component. Another company has taken interest in this processor, Hewlett-Packard; they are building a desktop PC for the Chinese market and wish it to be fitted with the VIA C7-D processor and supporting chipsets from the same company.
The model is called HP Compaq dx2020, it will use a VIA C7-D 1.5GHz "Esther" core processor, and the VIA CN700 chipset. The systems allows to be fitted with up to 1GB of DDR2 memory, up to 160GB Serial ATA 3Gbps hard drive. The processors TDP is of 20W, and the chipset will feature VIA UniChrome Pro II integrated graphic processor for multimedia support, so the power consumption level will be very low, hoping that the PC "may be considered as an example of environmentally friendly personal computer."
