[Prime] Prime Power

[Rick Pali]

I was in the hardware store today, and a nifty product caught my eye. It's 
a device you plug into the electrical outlet. It's got a receptacle of its 
own into which you plug an appliance. It displays the voltage, current, 
wattage, peak wattage use, peak current drawn, KWh, a timer, and even the 
cost of the electricity used since the timer started.

It was an impulse buy, but I also have remarkably few conveniently placed 
outlets in my apartment so this will be useful in determining how much load 
I'm placing on each outlet.

My computer (a 1.5GHz P4) with two hard drives and a DVD burner, monitor, 
and cable modem, uses an average of 160 Watts. That's without Prime95 
running. Start up our favourite distributed computing application and power 
use jumps to just a few Watts over 200.

I know work is being done with consequent heat generated, and this work 
takes power, but I never really had any idea how much electricity was being 
used by Prime95's execution.

Interesting.
Rick.
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