ecogeek.org — We might all be plenty happy to ogle over the next gigahertz revolution, but CNet recently pointed out that rating processor performance alone is becoming a useless measure. We can make the processors fast, the quesiton is, can we do it without burning through the mother board (and the electric bill).
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khyberkitsuneJun 18, 2006
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joeshlubJun 18, 2006
That story was completely worthless... No Digg. Perhaps if they did anything quantitative, then it would at least serve some purpose.
dustyshadowJun 18, 2006
link to blog that links to article. no digg
hellmarkJun 18, 2006
My mac mini has a ~85 watt power supply, yet never goes above 30. My AMD64 has a 450 watt PSU, but typically uses half of that.
trentonJun 19, 2006
Exactly, It isn't really the electric bill that will hurt you, but things like cooling during the summertime. Although it makes a nice replacement for your furnace in the winter. =D
hellmarkJun 21, 2006
@toveling - its like 9.5 cents per kilowatt hour, and say if you're burning 250 watts 24/7, thats about $17 a month. However, thats figuring CPU is working hard, and the monitor never goes into standby. With hard drives today that go idle, monitors that standby, and sleep mode on computers, you're probably not using that much consistantly.