[mythtv-users] Power recording rule for night time preference

[Ronald Frazier]

> My PC is using 290W permanently (if not recording and throttled down) 290*24
>
> This means that I would pay around 500$ per year to run my FE/BE if night
> time power was not at 60% of the daytime price.

If powering it down and scheduling for night time doesn't improve
things for you significantly, you may want to look at the possibility
of building a PC based on something more energy efficient. My
diskless, basic core2 duo systems are about 35 watts at idle, and 65
at full load. Add another 6-10 watts per hard drive, a couple extra
watts if you have a lot of memory (mine is 2GB). A GeForce G210 idles
about 11 watts, or a G220 is about 20-30 watts (I think). It shouldn't
be at all unreasonable to build a system with about a third of your
system's power consumption. It could easily pay for itself in a year
or 2 at the prices you are talking about.



-- 
Ron