Power consumption of a Quad GO at 3Ghz

The Asgard · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:21

Just thought you mind find this interesting.

Just bought a power meter and thought I would measure the power use of my quad and server.

My server on Auto at Stock

P5W64 Pro
3Gigs of Ram @ 667
2180 MO @ 2Ghz
2x WD 500GB RE2 in raid mirror config
ATI X500 128MB

At idle it uses 88 Watts upto 125 watts load

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My Quad Q6600 GO running at 3.0ghz at 1.128
431 x7
P5K Delux
4 gigs of ram @ 862 4-4-4-12
Watercooling with D5 pump
XFI
2x WD 500GB RE2
6x 120mm Fans
7600GS - GTS 512 tomorrow

Idle 164 watts
priming 233 watts
3D mark 06 195 watts

Quite impressed to be honest.

Will see how the GTS effects power consumption tomorrow

Blackout · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:34

That is really interesting 'The Asgard'. That's info that I find very helpful indeed. Presumably that quad is biggest difference affecting pwr usage?

That just makes my mind up then, I think I will go 2180 until the penryns come out (and hope that they are even better on energy consumption (yes....I am 'Green-Gamer' lol)

gt_junkie · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:40

Nice one!

gt

The Asgard · 10 Dec 2007 at 13:44

Blackout said:
That is really interesting 'The Asgard'. That's info that I find very helpful indeed. Presumably that quad is biggest difference affecting pwr usage?

That just makes my mind up then, I think I will go 2180 until the penryns come out (and hope that they are even better on energy consumption (yes....I am 'Green-Gamer' lol)

Running the Quad at 1.1 volt helps an aweful lot. considering the difference between the 2180 M0 I think the quad is amazingly efficient in the direct comparison with my server.