On Saturday 27 November 2010, Matthew Marlowe wrote: > Volker, > > > Even my rig - hotter, doesn't reach 300W when I artificially torture the > > system. Normal 'max' load is in 200W range. An normal desktop? Under 100. > > OK -- just to find out the truth I've attached a kill-a-watt to my current > workstation which is ~4yrs old w/ slow cpu and ancient video card but > has been upgraded w/ 7 SATA Drives: > > Idle - ~285W > Light Use (emerge --sync) - ~310W > Kernel Compile w/ video app running and minor torture- ~340W
4 year old = sucks a lot of energy. A modern cpu, a modern chipset and a modern card uses a lot LESS energy idle AND under load than 4,5 year old stuff. You can go down as 60-70W desktop usage with a small EE amd cpu and a gigabyte board with onboard graphics. With a little bit of tuning even less.
