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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
c) Power consumption is: P = V^2 * F * C. That is, voltage squared, multiplied by frequency and capacitance. C is constant and specific to each CPU, so what you get is a linear increase in power (and heat) with frequency and an exponential increase with voltage. Overvolting matters more.
This formula doesn't work well for this CPU. Look this - http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=3286

It is clear that frequency increase 4 times (from 125 to 500) increases CPU energy consumption not to 4 times but 30% or (in worst case) - twice.
 

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