Emmanuel Amador wrote:
>
> > How much electricity does a typical PC consume? Most PCs have a 200 watt
> > power supply but I do not think that the CPU itself consume that much. I
>
> A loooong time ago, PC Digest ran a story on PC power consumption. I think PC
> World did the same. If I remember correctly, after the monitor, the HD consumed
> the most power. Around 15 watts perhaps. The other stuff consumed less than ten
> watts each. Total consumption was around 40-50 watts.
>
The processor now consumes much larger quantities of power these days.
An AMD K6-2 running at 450 MHz consumes about 17-30 W. A video card
like an S3 Savage4 or an Nvidia RIVA TNT2 consumes large amounts of
power as well, roughly 15-20 W. A hard disk like my Barracuda 7200 RPM
drive would consume more than 25, I think. Total consumption for a
modern, mid- to high-end PC these days is closer to 150 W than it is to
50.
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