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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just measured the power consumed by my MythTV
server and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>was suprised to find it ticking away at 175 watts
(24-7 of course).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here in California that gets pretty ugly over time.
A KWh</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>costs me over $0.24 so that works out to around $32
a month.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The box is a Athlon Thunderbird 1.3G running 3 ATA
disk drives (all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5400 RPM, two 60g and 1 180g), a matrox g400 dual
head for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TV-out (that card has a fan on it), two ethernet
cards, and a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AverMedia brooktree video capture/tuner card.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does 175 w </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>seem high
to anyone else? Do other processors</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of equivelent compute power (how does a 2 gig
celeron compare </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>performance?) take less power? Have others measured the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>power consumed by their myth boxes? if someone
knows of a </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>power consumption <FONT face=Arial size=2>database
that already exists I could take</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a look there. Failing that if </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2> you would like </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>to post the
power </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>numbers and the system configs I could setup a page
to do </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob</FONT></DIV>
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