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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Saturday 27 November 2010, Matthew Marlowe wrote: |
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>> Volker, |
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>>> Even my rig - hotter, doesn't reach 300W when I artificially torture the |
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>>> system. Normal 'max' load is in 200W range. An normal desktop? Under 100. |
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>> OK -- just to find out the truth I've attached a kill-a-watt to my current |
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>> workstation which is ~4yrs old w/ slow cpu and ancient video card but |
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>> has been upgraded w/ 7 SATA Drives: |
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>> Idle - ~285W |
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>> Light Use (emerge --sync) - ~310W |
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>> Kernel Compile w/ video app running and minor torture- ~340W |
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> 4 year old = sucks a lot of energy. A modern cpu, a modern chipset and a |
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> modern card uses a lot LESS energy idle AND under load than 4,5 year old stuff. |
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> You can go down as 60-70W desktop usage with a small EE amd cpu and a gigabyte |
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> board with onboard graphics. With a little bit of tuning even less. |
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I honestly thought about using the power supply I have now but I want to |
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keep this old rig as a stand by at least. I'll still run folding on it |
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in the winter too. I may move it to another room tho. Maybe the dining |
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room. |
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I just don't want to get one that is to small and ends up burning out |
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and taking the mobo and all with it. That's why I got a case with no |
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power supply at all. I just don't trust those things to much. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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