Re: Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)

["David Gumbrell" <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Useful comparison on Intel vs AMD from the perspective of power
consumption=
:

http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/low_e/14.shtml

I'm going to look even harder at AMD now.

Cheers,

Dave

On 9/24/06, Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Just found this via Digg, which is equally scary...
>
> http://www.overclockers.com/articles1364/
>
> On 20/09/06, Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx<lists%40automatedhome=
.co.uk>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Last night I was measuring the power usage of a little NAS unit
compare=
d
> > to
> > a PC and thought the info might be useful to some here. The NAS
uses
> > 18Watts and the PC almost 150Watts.
> >
> > Using this calculator...
> > http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp
> > ..the annual 24/7 running costs for each work out as follows
> >
> > NAS - =A317.38
> > PC - =A3144.80
> >
>
>
>


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