I couldn't find any 'official' ones, just a few random ones dotted about, but with some pretty good info in them. What with the current 'efficiency drive' in most businesses and homes around the world and all the chat about beeing greener etc. I thought it might be a good idea to start amalgamating information about individual rigs and what people have done to reduce the power draw when using them. Because lets face it, the majority of us have our PC's sitting around idle a lot of the time or we're just browsing the net.
Folding is great and all, but I'd rather my computer be saving me money on my power bill when idle and not jacking it up.
This is the kind of info I'm talking about system power draw with specs.
How to save energy and drop temps using a 4870.
It could also be useful to those people looking to figure out what PSU to buy for their new rig, real world examples would be much better then the overcompensated calculators that are found online. Especially as there's no PSU forum and the 'How many watts do I need' threads pop up pretty often.
Anyway, if anyone know of a thread already point me towards it or thinks it's a good Idea I'll get the ball rolling with more info from my system or feel free to chuck up your own info.
Folding is great and all, but I'd rather my computer be saving me money on my power bill when idle and not jacking it up.
This is the kind of info I'm talking about system power draw with specs.
How to save energy and drop temps using a 4870.
It could also be useful to those people looking to figure out what PSU to buy for their new rig, real world examples would be much better then the overcompensated calculators that are found online. Especially as there's no PSU forum and the 'How many watts do I need' threads pop up pretty often.
Anyway, if anyone know of a thread already point me towards it or thinks it's a good Idea I'll get the ball rolling with more info from my system or feel free to chuck up your own info.