[mythtv-users] Power Con$umption
Kevin D. Snodgrass
kds.mythtv at cox.net
Wed Mar 24 18:16:44 EST 2004
Rob Comstock wrote:
> I just measured the power consumed by my MythTV server and
> was suprised to find it ticking away at 175 watts (24-7 of course).
I'll be interested to see what my new machine (Athlon 2800+,
.5GB RAM, 2 200MB Maxtors and 3 PVR-250 cards) will suck
down. The Kill-a-watt is waiting. :-)
> Here in California that gets pretty ugly over time. A KWh
> costs me over $0.24 so that works out to around $32 a month.
Well, you could move. Not all states have the stupid enviro
laws like the PRC does. I pay < $0.065/kw in Nebraska.
> The box is a Athlon Thunderbird 1.3G running 3 ATA disk drives (all
That might be the problem. 3 drives spinning constantly
will use a fair bit of juice.
> Does 175 w seem high to anyone else? Do other processors
Somewhat high, especially for a Tbird. A 1GHz Tbird uses
about 54W. If the core voltage is the same, then your
1.3GHz shouldn't go over 60W (guessing), if the voltage was
dropped by AMD then it will be less than that.
> of equivelent compute power (how does a 2 gig celeron compare
> in performance?) take less power? Have others measured the
From what I remember Intel CPUs use a bit more power than
an AMD for the same performance. But I never have paid
attention to Celerons.
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