On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to
>> speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation
>> very much when relatively idle.
>>
Idle on a GPU (in Linux) might be more when the screen is
Am 30.07.2012 19:14, schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Amp meters are less than $50 USD. They clamp around the
>>> power cord, or any wires inside the computer you can fit
>>> the "clamp" around.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> MB power?
>> Hard drive power?
>> Hard disk power
>> GPU power?
>> DRAM power?
>>
>> The 5 above can easily become the dominant power hogs.
>>
>> I use an Intel i7 980X 6-core hyper-t
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James wrote:
>
>>
>> Amp meters are less than $50 USD. They clamp around the
>> power cord, or any wires inside the computer you can fit
>> the "clamp" around.
>
>
>>
>> hth,
>> James
>>
>>
> I haven't read t
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James wrote:
>
> Amp meters are less than $50 USD. They clamp around the
> power cord, or any wires inside the computer you can fit
> the "clamp" around.
>
> hth,
> James
>
>
I haven't read this thread but I do use one of these which costs less than $20:
http:/
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, James wrote:
>
>
>> > When you have full load, the CPU won't clock down. So nothing saved there.
>
>> When you're considering full load, the TDP becomes a useful estimation
>> of relative power consumption between different processors.
>
>> > If you don't have fu
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012, 10:08:24 schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 30/07/12 07:28, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 2
> > When you have full load, the CPU won't clock down. So nothing saved there.
> When you're considering full load, the TDP becomes a useful estimation
> of relative power consumption between different processors.
> > If you don't have full load, the clock-down doesn't save much compared to
>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 30/07/12 07:28, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
wrote:
>
On 30/07/12 07:28, Michael Mol wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
wrote:
On 30/07/12 05:23, Philip Webb wrote:
i5-2550K & FX-4100 both use 95 W
(some of the more cost
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30/07/12 05:23, Philip Webb wrote:
i5-2550K & FX-4100 both use 95 W
(some of the more costly AMDs use
On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 30/07/12 05:23, Philip Webb wrote:
i5-2550K & FX-4100 both use 95 W
(some of the more costly AMDs use 125 W ).
Note that power savings are not important if you're not using a laptop. CPU
p
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 30/07/12 05:23, Philip Webb wrote:
>> i5-2550K & FX-4100 both use 95 W
>> (some of the more costly AMDs use 125 W ).
>
>
> Note that power savings are not important if you're not using a laptop. CPU
> power savings on a desktop don
On 30/07/12 05:23, Philip Webb wrote:
Do I need > 4 cores ?
If you do video encoding, run chess analysis or are building software
all day long, a 6 core helps. But you don't "need" them. You only need
1 core.
i5-2550K & FX-4100 both use 95 W
(some of the more costly AMDs use 125 W ).
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