essentially it stops your cpu when you aren't using it, which can drop your idle temp about 10ºC. This doesn't, however, affect load temps, so for people running distributed computing projects it's worthless.
I used it 2000-2001 with my peltier/water-cooled computer, and late one january night I hit -14C idle.
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