[mythtv-users] Requesting some sample kill a watt meter numbers

[Joe Hickey]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> "Mark D. Montgomery II" <techiem2 at techiem2.net> wrote on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:39:35AM -0500:
>> Quoting freedenizen <freedenizen at gmail.com>:
>>
>> >my be alone runs around 300W idle, 350-400 under load, 85 would be awesome.
>>
>> My FE/BE/Gaming box seems to be sitting at 140-145W (box only, not
>
> I took some readings when I built my new frontend a few weeks ago.
>
> Frontend: 32W idle, 46W 1080i playback
> Adding a G210 video card to this box increased the power consumption
> to 44W idle, 50W playback.
> Backend/frontend: 89W idle, 93W 1080i playback
> Swapping out the FSP PSU in this box with the 80 plus Seasonic dropped
> the power consumption to 79W idle, 83W playback, approximately a 10%

Thanks to all for the numbers!!!

This helps me a lot --- basically to sum it up, sounds like my system
is not doing too badly.  The hardware right now is:

Athlon X2 5200+  CPU
MSI media live chassis (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MSI_Media_Live)
4GB RAM (4x 1GB DDR2-800)
1.5 TB Seagate HDD - partitioned, for OS, mysql, general purpose
file/music/photo share
2TB WD "Green" drive for recordings only
PVR-150 installed in the single PCI slot for SD capture from the cable
box, and an USB IR blaster to control it.

The other tuner is a dual HDHomeRun, but that's not included in my
power measurement.

It idles at ~85w, but I've seen it go up as high as 140 while doing stuff.

I think the answer to my question is: if I want to substantially
reduce that number I have to look toward the atoms, and give up on the
idea of having commflag jobs complete in a anywhere near real time (or
possibly just have it fire up this box when needed).  Something to
think about.... I've been looking for a project lately.

One final question: has anyone tried the Via C7-D processors?  They
are at a similar price point to the Atom but it seems like they might
be even slower.

Thanks again!