warning: contents included liberal biasm and anti-videogamer enthuism. also mindless ranting.
Lately I've been trying to lower the energy consumption of my house. One of the prospect was to replace my desktop with a portable computer. I don't know why I didn't do this until now, but I measured the wattage output of the power supply and I was a bit suprised. My current computer:
-750watt psu
-microatx mobo
-3xfans
-8800gtx
-quadcore q6600
-2xhdd, 2xdvd, 2xrams
-etc
Now the 8800gtx is known to be a power hog, not many video cards use more power beside the top market ones. Even when the cpu is oc'ed to 3ghz, full video card speed, running h.264 encoding with 4 threads + playing 3d games + foobar playing asio emu1212m + internet running and downloading + folding@home, the psu does not output more than 290-305watt. But I don't overclock my computer and I underclock my video card because I never play a game that require that much mhz, so the computer idle at around 170watt and max at 230watt. When I found out this my thought was: What?
When I go to the newegg.com's power supply calculater page and entered my spec, it recommended me a 700watt psu, it seem to be another of their marketing scheme. I know you need a quality psu with good ampage for some of the parts I required, but $150 for the 750watt psu I bought was not needed.
I run my computer 24/7, says the computer run at all time 225watt, if I was paying 8cents per kwh, it will equate to around $250 a year. I guess people who use those Mac computers have a big advantage here. I could easily cut the consumption by almost half with a 45m 65watt amd quadcore and a 9600gt.
I would think this whole big power eating machine trend would have been fading out by this time, but I guess not, with all the monopolies companies running on the dominant x86 architecture.
Lately I've been trying to lower the energy consumption of my house. One of the prospect was to replace my desktop with a portable computer. I don't know why I didn't do this until now, but I measured the wattage output of the power supply and I was a bit suprised. My current computer:
-750watt psu
-microatx mobo
-3xfans
-8800gtx
-quadcore q6600
-2xhdd, 2xdvd, 2xrams
-etc
Now the 8800gtx is known to be a power hog, not many video cards use more power beside the top market ones. Even when the cpu is oc'ed to 3ghz, full video card speed, running h.264 encoding with 4 threads + playing 3d games + foobar playing asio emu1212m + internet running and downloading + folding@home, the psu does not output more than 290-305watt. But I don't overclock my computer and I underclock my video card because I never play a game that require that much mhz, so the computer idle at around 170watt and max at 230watt. When I found out this my thought was: What?
When I go to the newegg.com's power supply calculater page and entered my spec, it recommended me a 700watt psu, it seem to be another of their marketing scheme. I know you need a quality psu with good ampage for some of the parts I required, but $150 for the 750watt psu I bought was not needed.
I run my computer 24/7, says the computer run at all time 225watt, if I was paying 8cents per kwh, it will equate to around $250 a year. I guess people who use those Mac computers have a big advantage here. I could easily cut the consumption by almost half with a 45m 65watt amd quadcore and a 9600gt.
I would think this whole big power eating machine trend would have been fading out by this time, but I guess not, with all the monopolies companies running on the dominant x86 architecture.
