Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 15:55:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ziz a dumb question? Message-ID: <20100501155543.f909c863.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4BDC09A8.4030405@onetel.com> References: <20100501015705.GA46858@thought.org> <20100501041913.81a34394.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100501030350.GB46985@thought.org> <20100501052055.9def3399.freebsd@edvax.de> <4BDC09A8.4030405@onetel.com>
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On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more), and the specs for my AS/400e 9406-170 say 654 W with expansion unit (326 W without), measured kVA values (according to manual) are similar. Weight is 70.5 kg, and size is two big towers side by side. > My 2 year old desktop uses > 60-100 watts depending on how hard it's working. Sounds like a notebook / laptop class computer. > 10 disks and lots of > noise must use a few watts, though size and weight wouldn't have that > much influence per se :) But it's more than 10 years old, too old to seriously measure something! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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