Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2004-01-01 Thread Don Lewis
A few more data points: System 1 (FreeBSD 4-STABLE) Pentium II 400 Asus P2B-LS motherboard (fxp + aic7890 Ultra2 SCSI on board) 384 MB ECC RAM Matrox G20 Floppy Seagate ST336737LW Seagate ST39173LW Plextor PX-R412C CD-R Tandberg SLR-5 Floppy Supermicro Case with lots of fans

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-30 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi Martin and the rest of you Due to a regulation on watt pr. squaremeter (=heat) in the datacenter we use (InterXion) we have spent a lot of time finding new boards, cpu, psu, ram et al for the servers we use for dedicated serverhosting. All items are measured with different kinds of 'Fluke' volt-

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle. Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s? No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle. Which is bullshit becouse most of the CPU

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Erich Dollansky wrote: The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle. Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s? No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle. Which is bullshit becouse most of the CPUs those days don't run desktop

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin Cracauer wrote: Tim Kientzle wrote on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:22:10AM -0800: Ouch! I've tested a bunch of 'business-grade' desktops around my office, and they all run 40-60 watts during normal use (not including monitor) with peak power at boot time up to 70-80 watts. This includes

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Cracauer
Tim Kientzle wrote on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:22:10AM -0800: > > Ouch! I've tested a bunch of 'business-grade' desktops around > my office, and they all run 40-60 watts during normal use (not > including monitor) with peak power at boot time up to 70-80 watts. > This includes some P4s with lots

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Gregory Sutter
On 2003-12-27 19:59 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this > > CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily > > run my old hardware

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
Martin Cracauer wrote: Here is what my powermeter thinks my desktops are using with various options: System 1 ("wavehh", FreeBSD-4-stable): - 1300 MHz Celeron Base power consumption with all drives: 99 watts - No drives connected: 82 watts System 2: - AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz Base system with

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Wes Peters wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800: > > If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far > > less cooling fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA > > Epia motherboards and systems.

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-26 Thread Martin Cracauer
Wes Peters wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800: > If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far less cooling > fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA Epia motherboards and > systems. Actually I am posting from one of those - using a tty mailer :-)

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-26 Thread Wes Peters
On Thursday 25 December 2003 19:46, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Hi, > > those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to > replace some of my desktop system. To make it short, the notebook > vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook > (details on req

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Do you know if FreeBSD 5.2 runs on a Transmeta CPU with support of : the power options? My notebook is the Fujitsu P2120. I know that it works great. My FIVA with a Transmeta works great, and I can set the

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin Cracauer wrote: Hi, those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to replace some of my desktop system. To make it short, the notebook vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook (details on request) so I am going for other options. I

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-25 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Martin Cracauer wrote: Hi, those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to replace some of my desktop system. To make it short, the notebook vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook (details on request) so I am going for other options. Here is

Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-25 Thread Martin Cracauer
Hi, those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to replace some of my desktop system. To make it short, the notebook vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook (details on request) so I am going for other options. Here is what my powermeter thi