Zaragon;295818 Wrote: > One interesting point about using Squeezeboxes in a green fashion that > always seems to crop up is the comment along the lines of " I'm going > to build a low power server ". > > So I was wondering in global enery and resource terms is going out and > buying new components, which used electricity in manufacture, fuel in > distribution, resources in construction balanced by the lower energy > consumption actually less than running an old PC at higher electricity > usage but no landfill or need to recycle the components with their > associated enery and fuel needs. > > In short which is greener use the older more power intensive PC or junk > it and use a new system. Of course you use less electricity which > reduces your bill which may be all some people care about. > > Not withstanding that all the other ideas like standby are good one.
Under-clocking my old AMD Athlon XP processor, removing redundant hardware and having the machine in S3 state at least 90% of time collectively result in more than an order of magnitude improvement without requiring any new hardware to be manufactured or transported. Although having a specifically engineered solution for low energy would be fun to do and give a certain amount of satisfaction, I should probably reserve that option for when I have an actual hardware failure to contend with. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. --Dsdreamer -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46780 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
