Re: Ultra 5 + Aurora Linux = WooHoo?
Andy Osborne <[email protected]>
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venn wrote: > With only a 200w power supply it does not really jack up the power bill. I would think ours uses a bit more juice than most since I threw a U10 440mhz CPU in it. To be honest I did not notice any "jump" in my power bill. > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:19:23 +0100, Joacim Melin <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Allright. Thanks all for your feedback! >> >>Does anyone have any opinions on power consumption, how hot it runs, >>etc? >>I also have an Ultra 1 but I hesitated a bit over using it 24/7 at >>home because it eats up power like popcorn... Well, just out of curiosity I put a clamp ammeter on my Ultra 5 and on my Ultra 2 (dual 168 Ultra 1). Ultra 5 pulls about 200mA so on UK 240v mains we'll call that about 50 watts. For comparison the Ultra 2 was around 600mA so call that 150 watts. HTH, Andy _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html