<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Tortise <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tortise@paradise.net.nz">tortise@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">I measured the full off mains power current from a (FE) desktop PC. Much to my surprise it is a full 25 W (0.11A) when off.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>That seems unusually high. Mines showing a peak 0.05-0.06A, 11-14W. I'm using one of these to measure: <a href="http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4cac38c201b747b82740c0a87f3b06fb/Product/View/M7319">http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4cac38c201b747b82740c0a87f3b06fb/Product/View/M7319</a><br>
<br>What make is the powersupply? What's the motherboard? My guess is that one of those two is to blame.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Measuring tool: Fluke 73 Digital multimeter. A brief on test to the mythtv menus pulled 130 to 200W. (460W PS, 3G Intel CPU and<br>
9400 GT PCI) Sorry I should have run some HD as well....<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>On my machine copying a 4GB file from an SSD to a mirrored pair of SATA drives added approximately 20W to the consumption. Pretty trivial in comparison to the CPU or GPU.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>