[mythtv-users] Power Con$umption

[D Banerjee]

athlon 1.3 tbird sucks it down.. Upgrade to a barton cpu, you'll probably
have less power usage with more hp.

athlon 1.3 tbird = 55C
athlon xp 2500+ @ 2000/400 = 30C
same heatsink.

your psu might be inefficient as well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Comstock" <mythtv at westcoastlinux.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:22 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Power Con$umption


I just measured the power consumed by my MythTV server and
was suprised to find it ticking away at 175 watts (24-7 of course).
Here in California that gets pretty ugly over time. A KWh
costs me over $0.24 so that works out to around $32 a month.
The box is a Athlon Thunderbird 1.3G running 3 ATA disk drives (all
5400 RPM, two 60g and 1 180g), a matrox g400 dual head for
TV-out (that card has a fan on it), two ethernet cards, and a
AverMedia brooktree video capture/tuner card.

Does 175 w seem high to anyone else? Do other processors
of equivelent compute power (how does a 2 gig celeron compare
in  performance?) take less power? Have others measured the
power consumed by their myth boxes? if someone knows of a
power consumption database that already exists I could take
a look there. Failing that if  you would like to post the power
numbers and the system configs I could setup a page to do
that.

Thanks!

Rob




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