On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:44 -0500, Jacob Potter wrote: > On 11/19/05, Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, measured is usually lower than the faceplate number, but you are supposed to use the faceplace for engineering. > 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. That is lower than I expected, for a serious system. > A high-end Pentium 4 would draw more under load, but not much. As would a dual SLI gamer's system. Any idea how much difference actively driving two or three disks drives would add? > 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. The Via EPIA stuff is very cool, draws next to nothing. Kinda pricy, but just the thing for a media computer. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
