Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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.
I honestly thought about using the power supply I have now but I want to
keep this old rig as a stand by at least. I'll still run folding on it
in the winter too. I may move it to another room tho. Maybe the dining
room.
I just don't want to get one that is to small and ends up burning out
and taking the mobo and all with it. That's why I got a case with no
power supply at all. I just don't trust those things to much.
Dale
:-) :-)
