Frozen Transmeta Efficeon Notebook Improves Benchmarking Score
Our wacky pals over at Van's Hardware take benchmarking to whole new level. Or make that, a whole new sub-zero level. Here's what happened when they popped a Transmeta notebook in the freezer and fired up the benchmarks.

"Last weekend you could find in our deepfreeze, next to the Tony's Pizza, frozen garden vegetables, leftovers and Lean Cuisine, a $1500 Transmeta efficeon notebook running benchmarks. And guess what? Performance went up.

"In our review of the Transmeta efficeon last month, we discovered persuasive indirect evidence suggesting that the Transmeta efficeon engaged in performance throttling with very little provocation. We decided to take a more direct approach to see if we could manipulate the efficiency temperature to impact benchmark scores. We also wanted to simultaneously measure the efficiency clock speed to make certain that the CPU frequency was actually changing along with performance."

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