[ale] OT: Calculating PC power consumption

[vf5 at plm.gatech.edu]

If you want to be exact, then use a Kill-a-Watt or "Watts Up?"
meter on your PC's. You plug into this device and the LCD can
show you current Watts used. If left connected, you can get
a readout after X days of how many KWhs consumed. You can also
set the $/KWh on mine, and it will tell you how much it has
cost to run that appliance.

Some that I have measured:
Tower with Celeron 1.1 oc'd to 1.4: ~ 80 Watts
Old PII-333: ~ 35 Watts
Shuttle SV-24 with C3-800 CPU and laptop drive: ~ 20 Watts

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:41:52PM -0400, John Wells wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> On my home DSL, I have roughly four boxes running at any give time: a
> firewall/router, a DNS server, a web server, and a wireless VPN router.
> 
> I'd like to get a rough idea of how much these servers (particularly the
> web server and dns server) cost me in $$ from power consumption on a
> monthly basis.  I can't imagine it's overwhelming, but it'd still be nice
> to know.
> 
> Anyone tried doing this before?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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