Would depend on what's in it and what you call idle.
I would get one of those power meters and just do a bit of testing.
Neil Stockbridge is your man to talk to about where to get them.
Cheers Don
Roger Searle wrote:
Marginally on / off topic I guess... I am interested in quantifying how
much it costs to leave a computer running over night, and therefore what
the power saving is per year to an organisation if computers that are
otherwise left running all night are turned off via a schedule.
The question I don't have the answer for so am asking the list is, what
would an approximate power consumption be for a typical modern
workstation that is sitting idle? Assuming that the monitor has powered
down by the operating system.
Cheers,
Roger
