Fun with Power meters

redly

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Nov 15, 2004
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system specs
XP2500 Barton
2x256MB Corsair PC3500
2x80GB Western Digital
Shuttle MN31L Nforce2 Mobo
340W Enermax Power Supply

results
FSB speed---Steady state---100% Load(folding@home)
100Mhz-------91.5W----------107.5W
133Mhz-------97.5W----------118.5W
166Mhz-------101W-----------130W
175Mhz-------104W-----------133W
180Mhz-------103.5W---------134.5W
190Mhz-------105W-----------137W
193Mhz-------125W-----------n/a---did not actually boot all the way to Windows
 

RampantAndroid

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Jun 27, 2004
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how did you calculate the wattages? did you just measure how much it was drawing with a multimeter?
 

redly

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it's a neat little device by P3 Internationsl called the "Kill-a-Watt"

I also measured my 667 P3 machine..ha ha
steady state - 36W
100% load - 54W