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Anyone have the stats on how much power the normal computer uses?
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Brian
Did you ever think to check the name plate?!?
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DarkMatter
Top posting Usenet retard.
The name plate, as in the one on the power supply, ONLY states what
the power supply is capable of putting out. It in no way states what
the computer actually consumes.
Bone up on usenet posting protocols, dude.
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DarkMatter
Mini tower: 90W
Mini slimline: 75W
Full tower, decked out with
multiple drives and CD burner(s): 160W
On a bad day.
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Andrew Gabriel
I used to measure the power consumption for calculating air conditioning
capacity, before systems got to a GHz. All the way from 286 systems through
to ~700MHz PIII systems, the system unit always consumed around 60W, and
a CRT-based monitor between 50-100W over the range 14" to 21" (but also
depends on scan rate).
I haven't measured any more recent systems, but it might still be a
reasonable figure although it probably varies more with workload than
it would have in the past. As CPU's have got considerably more power
hungry, power management has also advanced. So the answer may depend
more on your workload and the operating system's ability of utilising
the power management features of your system more than it would have in
the past.
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DarkMatter
PC systems are still the same, 65W to 150W, depending on the system.
CRT type Monitors use around 150 Watts these days, so I'm sure they
used that much back then, if not more.
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Brian
BONE THIS MFer!!!!!!!
DarkMatter said:
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Col
top posting does it really matter for gods sake?
Am I the only old annorak whos been using usenet for 13+ yrs in one form or
another that isnt offended by the dreaded top posting, it saves my scroll
wheel a lot of work. ;-)
Col.
Am I the only old annorak whos been using usenet for 13+ yrs in one form or
another that isnt offended by the dreaded top posting, it saves my scroll
wheel a lot of work. ;-)
Col.
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srewbigbrother
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:18:59 -0800, DarkMatter
I've been using Usenet since 1992, and only recently have people
started complaining about top posting. In fact, at one time, you'd
get flamed for bottom posting. It makes no fing difference where you
post, and I actually find it better to top post since you don't have
to weed your way through all the background to get at the meat.
I've been using Usenet since 1992, and only recently have people
started complaining about top posting. In fact, at one time, you'd
get flamed for bottom posting. It makes no fing difference where you
post, and I actually find it better to top post since you don't have
to weed your way through all the background to get at the meat.
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srewbigbrother
You're completely correct. These newbie weenies think they're net
cops.
cops.
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sQuick
I agree completely. Its those ridgid inflexible people that have to have it
exactly the way they want it. I'll take it anyway I can get it
I actually prefer top posting.
and what relevance will this post bear to the thread subject once
the main post has expired ???
sQuick..(bottom posted)
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bushbadee
Tube monitors use about 150 watts.
Flat panel monitors of about 17 inches use about 40 watts.
If you live in a high electric cost area, as I do, a flat panel will pay
for itself very quickly.
It is hard to say how much power a computer uses.
It depends on many things.
How many hard drives are running. I have two huge ones.
Accessories, I have at least a dozen on my computer.
And the CPU.
The newer cpu's use as much as 65 watts alone, some even more.
Remember they have 40 to 60 million transistors in them.
The same goes for some video cards.
They can also generate a lot of heat and often have their own fans.
Aanother source of large losses is the diodes used to rectify the high
current, low voltages that some of these cpu's use.
Todays computers really need 250 to 200 watt power supplies.
The 100 watt supplies on most Emachines just will not do it.
Flat panel monitors of about 17 inches use about 40 watts.
If you live in a high electric cost area, as I do, a flat panel will pay
for itself very quickly.
It is hard to say how much power a computer uses.
It depends on many things.
How many hard drives are running. I have two huge ones.
Accessories, I have at least a dozen on my computer.
And the CPU.
The newer cpu's use as much as 65 watts alone, some even more.
Remember they have 40 to 60 million transistors in them.
The same goes for some video cards.
They can also generate a lot of heat and often have their own fans.
Aanother source of large losses is the diodes used to rectify the high
current, low voltages that some of these cpu's use.
Todays computers really need 250 to 200 watt power supplies.
The 100 watt supplies on most Emachines just will not do it.
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DarkMatter
Leave to a lame twit to continue being a lame twit.
You are one retarded mother fucker, boy.
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DarkMatter
No, but you are apparently one of the most retarded old twits in
Usenet to claim to have been in it for 13+ years, and not to know a
goddamned thing about it, AND to spew the standard, retarded, lazy
twit response.
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DarkMatter
I agree completely. Its those ridgid inflexible people that have to have it
exactly the way they want it. I'll take it anyway I can get it
I actually prefer top posting.
Since when does the opinion of an AOL retard matter?
You are so goddamned stupid that you subscribe to a company that has
already been beaten down in the courts for ripping off its customers.
For you to use them anyway is one hell of a tell about you.
To think that you know a goddamned thing about Usenet is ludicrous,
if you can't even follow the most basic of protocols.
All of you lame bastards are interlopers into a forum which you
think is a chat board. You're a bunch of fucking retards, at best.
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DarkMatter
A top of the line vid card MIGHT add a whole ten watts to the
number.... MAYBE. On a bad day.
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DarkMatter
You're a goddamned idiot. Retards like YOU have been railed in
Usenet since its inception. Get a clue, boy.
Now... I KNOW you're a goddamned idiot.
BTW, retard boy... what you were on in '92 was a BBS.
Said the YALFUR
Yet Another Lazy Fucking Usenet Poster
You know about as much about Usenet, as you do the mindset of those
that post in it... NIL.
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bushbadee
I like my new outlook express.DarkMatter said:
It tells me who the post comes from and I do not have to bother opening dark
matters posts.
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DarkMatter
If you top post, and then state that you never heard of it before,
then YOU are the newbie, you retard.
Your nym proves that you are retarded.
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DarkMatter
Wow... he got one right.
Not likely.
No shit, Sherlock.
They ALL have them.
I don't know of a single computer on the market now, or ever that
was fitted with a 100 Watt supply. In fact, I don't even think that
there are such animals in the ATX class.
You keep guessing as you go, and well keep the numbers straight for
your retarded ass.
CHILL OUT WITH THE BABY "B" BULLSHIT, YOU RETARDED TWIT!!!
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