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Watts Up with an average PC? |
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Written by Ben Hall
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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A couple of months ago I made a video looking at the power draw of the Zonbu PC. Here’s an excerpt from the post:
With the odd new product passing through The Green Lounge, I’ve decided to do a regular series of videos that look at how much power each of these devices consume. To accomplish this, I’ve purchased a Watts Up power meter, which not only gives real time read outs of watts, amps, volts, apparent power and more, but it also has storage capacity so you can set it up to record data over a period of time. But what makes the Watts Up especially useful is that it will create a forecast for monthly power consumption based on your patterns of usage, and, after plugging in the cost of a unit (KWh) of electricity for your area, it’ll also tell you how much it will cost to run the machine.
This time around I’ve done the same thing but checked out the power consumption and cost of operation of an “average” PC. Now, with no real guidelines covering what an average computer actually is, I’ve used one lying around here that was fairly high-end a couple of years ago, but might be considered a typical home or office PC today. It runs an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor, with 2GB of RAM and has a mid-range S3 graphics card.
Take a look at the video (with its deliberate green tinge – damn chroma-key) to see what your average PC costs you to run each month.
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Visitor
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
A new cell phone or UMD based on VIA platform?
http://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp?mode=read&c_num=77749&C_Code=01&SP_Num=0
Visitor
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Those savings are expected.
I changed my AMD64 (which idled at 75W) for a Zonbu half a year ago and the bi-mensual power bill went down about 20€.