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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> 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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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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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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