Power consumption

[Zap]

I'd say invest in a more efficient power supply. I seen idle watts lower when i switched from a 950w enermax silver evo, to a Seasonic x SS 400w FL Gold

That's not just from the higher efficiency, but from the lower wattage PSU due to efficiency curves.

Also, apparently the OP doesn't believe in letting his systems idle.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

That's not just from the higher efficiency, but from the lower wattage PSU due to efficiency curves.

That wasn't too obvious was it!? 😛 :hmm:

 

[Zap]

That wasn't too obvious was it!? 😛 :hmm:

Obscure knowledge is obscure.

 

[imagoon]

I have been on the same binge. Power is getting to expensive and I have a bad habit of building all these servers that do varying levels of work out of old boxes. I spent a few random $$ on the F/S forum and updated my E6600 to a Q6600, added a bit of ram to it and managed to use hyper-V to p2v all the old crap to one box. So for about $80 total in used parts I shutdown a couple of computers, 1 being a dual dual p4 era Xeon 3.2ghz with that had FB-DIMMs. I am waiting to see what my bill says the consumption for the month was.

As a neat bit of FYI... The Xeons did have speedstep but it was nonfunctional. These where the P4 era Dempsey 130w TDP chips. The machine had a Dell 1000watt psu. Measured at the wall that removing 4 of the FB-DIMMs dropped the power consumed by 45watts. Thinking about it... I could have likely spent the $650 for the ivy bridge kit I am looking at buy to replace the q6600 and come out ahead in the last year.

 

[VirtualLarry]

But then I realized that I wanted to do DC, and then that made the E-350 rig way too sluggish

I noticed that my E-350 handles DC on the CPU just fine, just not on the IGP.

Edit: Which makes me wonder about the real-world benefits of AMD's upcoming HSA arch, if it will make your everyday computing unusable.