On 11/19/05, Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just checked the local electric rates. > They get about 5 cents ($0.05) per kilowatt hour. > On a low end PC, with a two hundred watt power supply, > this is a penny per hour, assuming that the monitor > has gone off/sleep without use.
Most PCs will never draw that much, though. I just measured mine (with a Radio Shack clamp-type ammeter), and got: Idle - 0.8 A / 96 W High CPU load (yes|md5sum) - 1.0 A / 120 W Extreme CPU load (cpuburn) - 1.1 A / 132 W CPU and video load (Quake 4) - 1.4 A / 168 W This is a pretty speedy system, too - Athlon64 3500+ (overclocked to 2.4ghz), GeForce 7800GT, SeaSonic 380 watt power supply. A high-end Pentium 4 would draw more under load, but not much. My EPIA V8000A (800mhz C3) drew between 12 and 24 watts, measured at the input of the 12-volt DC-DC power supply, but that was without a hard drive. Laptop drives only draw a few watts, but they are way more expensive. - Jacob _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
