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.
I think that nowadays, especially with fast CPUs and video cards, the
CPU and the video cards come next as the most power-hungry parts after
the video monitor. The Athlon I think consumes 40+ watts! That's in
contrast to the Pentium III family which eats only around 25+ watts.
-Andre
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