Power consumption - I've got me some datas

joeyjojo

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I got a cheap power/volts/current meter today so I've been going around the house measuring things.

Intel machine (805D)
Overclocked to 3.6 GHz:
140W Idle
245W FaH load

Stock:
110W Idle
186W Orthos small FFT
177W FaH load
145W FaH on 1 core

AMD machine (165)
Overclocked to 3 GHz:
127W Idle
225W Orthos small FFT
213W SMP load

Stock with Cool'N'Quiet:
110W Idle
160W Orthos load

I've come to the conclusion that the 805 on 24/7 is a huge waste of money for hardly any points*. Thus, it will be not on unless used. When it is on, it will be overclocked, consuming an extraordinary 245 joules per second in the name of science. Depending on hours/day over the next few days, it might go back to stock and stop folding, since I don't expect the points to be worth over twice the power consumption. This will leave me, once again, with a single machine (more or less, the xp occasionally dumps something).

*This conclusion will change if the windows smp client is supported :p

Edit: My 19 inch monitor is drawing 83W when entirely black and 110W when white (somewhere in between on average, around 100 I think).

My (crt) TV draws about 120W when on. The TV, plus a dvd player, vcr and surround sound draw around 18-20W when on standby :eek:
 
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Standby is pretty power hungry. It is why businesses and home owners alike are urged to switch appliances completely off. I very rarely leave my TFT in standby [only if I have wandered off and forgotten to come back and it has gone into standby itself :p].

My parents complain about my PC being on 24/7 though. But I have won them over with a rather convincing argument. The radiator in my room is never on. You could disconnect the thing and take it away for all I care. I tell them that although my PC is burning a small amount of electric all day long, I am saving them money on the heating bills by never actually using it. Winnar!

I am also always turning the central heating off anyway, so I have probably saved my household thousands if not more :o

....maybe :p
 
post it to me and I'll check my C2D and all the P4 (with and without HT) :D

But thanks for the figs I'll check those againest my data.

Edit: I know what we mean about the OC'ed 805 being power hungry, that why I got my C2D :)
 
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