<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:51 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;">
A 3.1G C2D FE idles at 0.28A and plays 1080i at 0.32A. (A mere 74W, which surprises me, as I thought it would be much more! </blockquote><div><br>That's impressively low.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
That is<br>
50% power saving over the 3G single cores!!!) Suspend and off power is 0.05, as for Steve, so it maybe the motherboard / CPU class<br>
that determines the idle load?<br></blockquote><div><br>The CPU is actually off when powered off, right? It'd have to be motherboard and/or power supply, I think.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
All machines I reported on have CF HDD and 9400GT's in the single core boards and a 8500GT in the Dual.<br>
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>On my machine copying a 4GB file from an SSD to a mirrored pair of SATA drives added approximately 20W to the consumption. Pretty<br>
>trivial in comparison to the CPU or GPU.<br>
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</div>Perhaps, but it is also double that of an idling vdpau card vs it playing 1080i, which surprises me. Were the drives off before the<br>
copy?.<br></blockquote><div><br>Idle but not spun down. The 20W difference is more than Seagate's manual indicates. There could be CPU load in there due to the software RAID1.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>