From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 13:55:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E111065672 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 13:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410C28FC23 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 13:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-12-140.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.12.140]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA2B3D806; Sat, 1 May 2010 15:55:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o41DthQd006791; Sat, 1 May 2010 15:55:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 15:55:43 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Chris Whitehouse 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> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: ziz a dumb question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 13:55:47 -0000 On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse 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, ...