intermod;482750 Wrote: > > > > Some users prefer to not run a PC 24/7 for environmental reasons. > > > > This is also of practical concern. I have measured power consumption > of > various PC's (for server use). Our baseline electrical cost in > northern > California is $0.12/kwh; at my tier, I am paying $0.24 avg. Assuming > 720 > hours a month (PC on full-time, no monitor) at $0.24/kwh: > > CPU Watts Monthly Annual > AMD P6/300 MHz 28 $5 $58 > Pentium I/166 MHz 44 $8 $91 > Pentium III/300 MHz 66 $11 $137 > Celeron 600 MHz 33 $6 $68 > Dual Core T7200 2GHz laptop 35 $6 $73 > Pentium 4/2.5 GHz (cheesy video) 63 $11 $131 > Same, with hi-perf DVSI video 86 $15 $178 > Intel Quad Q9550 64-bit 2.83 GHz 123 $21 $255 > Dell Dual Xeon (PIII vintage??) 170 $29 $352 > > Some of these machines are too slow for SB. Laptops are by far the > best > performance/power/noise tradeoff. Celeron also good, but likely too > slow. > > Someone care to add a "Carbon" column? > > Greg
Hogwash. Having a PC powered on, doesn't mean the CPU is being used 100% of the time or at 100% when it is being used. -- eap ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eap's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71020 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
