I'm using a 'Zotac ION-A' (http://pden.zotac.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=169&category_id=15&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1) with 2 '1TB WD' (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=336) green drives and a few fans to keep some airflow going. Using a 'Zalman MFC3' (http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=341) to measure the power usage I read values of around 40 watts most of the time. The board comes with its own power brick very similar to a laptop.
Before this I was using one of the early Intel atom boards with a 450 watts Corsair PSU, and it used about 10-15 watts more than this setup, while this is more powerful and has more options. So all in all your readings sound about right. A few forums and tech sites had already discovered that the Northbridge chips use far more juice than the CPU itself too. I'm actually very surprised at the results posted here with the D945GCLF. I'd looked at the board myself but figured it would use more juice than an Atom based solution. But from reading the posts here it seems that it has better low power management than the Atom boards I have tried and in use right now. I've not managed to get them below 30 watts, but will admit I have not experimented with hard drives turning off (bad memories). -- furonfour 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/wostu) - Chaos is the mother of all creation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ furonfour's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75902 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
