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I once borrowed a digital power consumption meter (1 watt resolution) from the power company. My Athlon XP1600+ and XP1700+ machines at that time drew a little over 100W each. Hard disk activity increases the power consumption by about 10W. CPU activity (running a 3D game) also measurably...

Thanks! I changed the FSB to 133MHz. wcpuid now says Internal clock 2000.07 MHz, System clock 133.34 MHz, System bus 266.68 MHz DDR, Multiplier 15.0 And the machine is about 5% slower... Looks like I had been inadvertently overclocking it slightly. I guess there was some safety feature...

I have a KT4V-L motherboard with an Athlon XP2400+ processor and 1Gb of 266DDR memory. I am not interested in overclocking, I just want a stable system that runs with the performance I am paying for. When I got this machine, the FSB setting in the BIOS was 100MHz. Since I have 266DDR memory, I...