On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Suzanne Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wouldn't just turning off the monitors count for most of that power
> useage? That's not exactly difficult, and doesn't require one to wait for
> reboot in the morning.
>
> Or am I mislead about believing that most power usage w/workstations is
> the monitor?
I'd say as a rough estimate monitor is about 1/2 of the power consumption
(or maybe a bit more, depends on details).
When I was buying some UPS's I found this site to be useful for estimating
the power consumption of the parts:
http://www.apcc.com/template/size/workstation/single/index.cfm
E.g. for my wife's linux box:
Mini_Tower/K6-2/333MHz/2_HD
No monitor: 74 W
w/17" monitor: 164 W (diff: 90 W)
Also, instead of switching off the monitor consider putting it in
the screensaver in ~/.xinitrc:
xset +dpms
xset dpms 1500 1900 2400
When the monitor goes into full DPMS mode it is only using about 5-10 W
if IIRC.
Karl Runge
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