On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:19 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: > On 28 June 2010 22:12, Tyler J. Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > As long as the card is on the bus, it is powered. The card > itself may have a > specific power-save mode, but I very much doubt it. > > The power consumed by the monitor is another story, but you > know how to turn > that off. > > If you want a way to save power and periodically run commands > and fetch stuff, > just buy a low-power PC. My Intel Atom-powered box consumes 26 > W in normal > operation, so I never turn it off. > > Regards, > Tyler > > If you like the idea of a low powered pc, the Acer Aspire revo are > very nice: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/200537 > > I have 4 all running Lucid and I didn't have to pay the window tax.
Another supplier you may want to have a look at are TranquilPC: I've got one of their T2e boxes running Lucid Server it is really completely silent, and they have OS free options on all their hardware: http://www.tranquilpc.co.uk/ Bruno -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
