[ale] OT: Calculating PC power consumption

[Geoffrey]

vf5 at plm.gatech.edu wrote:
> 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

Again though, it depends on what the boxes are doing.  I suspect the
Celeron was busier than the others, hence the higher energy usage.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey