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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>> Amp meters are less than $50 USD. They clamp around the |
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>> power cord, or any wires inside the computer you can fit |
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>> the "clamp" around. |
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> <SNIP> |
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>> hth, |
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>> James |
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> I haven't read this thread but I do use one of these which costs less than $20: |
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> http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/ref=pd_sim_hi_1 |
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> Personally I think CPU power consumption is a red herring without |
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> including the power consumed by the rest of the box: |
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> MB power? |
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> Hard drive power? |
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> Hard disk power |
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> GPU power? |
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> DRAM power? |
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> The 5 above can easily become the dominant power hogs. |
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> I use an Intel i7 980X 6-core hyper-threaded CPU, so that's 12 CPUs in |
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> top, which burns _lots_ of power, but I suspect it's not the biggest |
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> power consumer when compared to the total of the 6 500GB 7200 RPM hard |
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> drives I have in the box. |
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Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to |
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speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation |
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very much when relatively idle. |
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> WRT to money spent to run a machine I hope someone stated earlier than |
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> this that it's the whole system that matters and not just the CPU. |
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I didn't state so explicitly, no, but I believe I mentioned the two |
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machines had been otherwise comparable in their equipment loadout. If |
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I missed that, my bad. |
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:wq |
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