On Friday 04 January 2008 12:50, Rasmus Plewe wrote: > > I find it incredible what amount of energy gets wasted that way. > > The energy waste is in the CPU/GPU still working on the graphics even > after the screen has powered off. My guess would be very uneducated, but > I don't think that's very substantial.
I fear it indeed is: http://www.behardware.com/articles/670-2/pc-s-actual-power-consumption.html 164 W idle vs. 207 W with load ( 43 W difference) 297 W idle vs. 472 W with load (175 W difference - yikes!) versus the ~30 W your average 19" TFT consumes. Agreed, with a screen saver you probably won't get your CPU or GPU to max energy consumption, but you can see that there is a significant difference between idle and load. And it's at least in the same league as your TFT's engergy consumption. CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
