RE: Site update

[simon rafferty <musashi1977uk@xxxxxxx>]

Erm the answer to your question is how long is a pice of string ??

Seriously though it all depends on what is inside the box. An average 1 gig athlon, with a 7200rpm drive will quite happily chew up 250w if the processor is under load and the HD is regularly being accessed, e.g seti crunching and a pretty graphics card like a GF3 is being used. Conversley if you are using full power management and rhe machine regularly sleeps and spins down its HD it can consume under 100w. My asus terminator server, running win2k pro, a 700mhz duron and a 40gig 7200 rpm hd and 1/3 gig pc133 cas2 memory only has a 150 w psu in it and it runs all day long, every day. So power usage is dependant on what software is running, what processor is running, what graphics card is running and how many pci slots are full and how many fans are in it. If I remember correctly a GF3 draws about 40% more power than a GF2 GTS.

 

Simon Rafferty

  Phil Harris <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If I remember correctly some time ago a PC
> eats about 120 
> > pounds a year. Maybe less without a monitor. I am
> looking to 
> > upgrade my only 24/7 from a P2 400 to something with a
> little 
> > more oomph soon and that runs without a monitor. Didn't
> tell 
> > Wifey about the running cost so she happy.
>
> £120 a year
> sounds a bit high and seems to have been worked out just on
> the maximum
> rating of most PSUs - for example:
>
> We pay 5.17p/unit which would
> mean that a PC over a year uses 2321kw.
> That works out at 6.5Kw/day or
> 260w/hr which is the full rating for most
> PSUs.
>
> Does anyone know
> what the actual draw of a typical PC is once powered up
> and running? I
> would have thought less than 100w.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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