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Old 08-15-2015, 06:17 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Nick_1964 View Post
Isn't that constantly ping and resetting consuming a "lot" of power ?
I don't really know, I guess nickel has to use some extra power to wake up and send a ping every 5 seconds or so when it would otherwise have stayed in an idle state, but it is probably not much. These ARM CPUs seem to have tricks available for doing this sort of thing using a minimum of power.
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