In addition the power supply takes a lot power even if the CPU does not need it. Those PSUs are so cheap made that they don't care about reducing power if in idle. Also the losses of the PSUs are quite high (30-40% of max power)
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:02:54 -0500, David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/14/2005 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >When the cpu is idle it's not eatting up power anyways. > > > Maybe some CPUs with power saving mode (or using cpuspeed). But the > above is dangerous as a general statement. Just as an example: ok, your > CPU is idling and not eating power. Is it safe to remove the CPU fan > and heatsink from it? After all not "eatting" [sic] power should mean > that it isn't generating heat. :-) > > > So if that's the > >case then there's no problem with the way it is? > > > It isn't the case. While CPUs may not draw as much power when idling > the higher-end desktop processors from AMD and Intel definitely draw a > lot of power and make a lot of heat. > > -- > David > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
