Re: Some reference power consumption
Steve Browne <[email protected]>
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Aaron Birenboim wrote: > Seems a bit high. > > I put a Kill-a-watt on the new machine I'm building. > It is interactively running, but not doing anything too intensive. > Mostly downloading and installing software (some disk access) > It is writing to the single SATA system disk. > 5 fans happily blowing away, making a raquet. > ===================================================== > 2000 VA UPS alone ??? I didn't measure > Not terribly busy machine 200W (with UPS too) > Machine with 24" LCD on 240W Machine+monitor+UPS > ===================================================== > This is a somewhat massive gamer-type machine. > Dual Xeon quad-cores (8 cores total), a GeForce 8800 GPU, > and (3) SATA drives. > > The UPS is showing a power-factor of 0.99. > I don't know if UPS's usually show such good power factors, > weather or not the computer is running close to 1.0. > > I'm downloading openarena now to see if I can use that fancy > GPU. We'll see how power changes then. > > aaron I have a second system, sister to the first, the only difference being that it has a 7950GT card for gaming etc. When I have them BOTH fired up, connected through a KVM switch, the total draw is still always below 450 watts. The point I am implying is that the power supply market is overblown and relies on perpetuated ignorance. Steve -- Stephen B. Browne [email protected] "Ubi bene, ibi patria." _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug