testComputer Wattage
Posted May 1, 2007 at 02:05pm in Computers
I finally bought a Kill-A-Watt when I built my Core 2 Duo and it has been really handy. Right this second I have the following running on it and it is registering 513W.
- Celeron 433, 64mb RAM, 4.3 IDE, CDROM, Integrated Video, PCI NIC, no USB (Idling)
- P4 1.4, 128mb RDRAM PC800, 160GB, 120GB, PCI NIC, no USB, 4-80mm fans, 350W PSU (Wiping Drives)
- P4 2.6HT, 1GB DDR400, 120GB, 200GB, 32mb NVidia Geforce 2 MMX, 2 USB Devices, 5-80mm fans, 420w PSU (Idling Desktop)
- Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2800, 120GB, 400GB, 500GB, 500GB, 256mb NVidia Geforce 7600GT, 2-80mm fans, 2-60mm fans, 580w PSU (Idling Desktop)
- 4-100cfm Cabinet fans
- 15inch CRT in cabinet
- Linksys Wireless Router
I don’t think 513 is too bad for all of that, I should really reset the Kill-A-Watt to 0 on the kilowatt hour meter so I can see how much I use in a month. The accuracy on the Kill-A-Watt is supposed to be around 0.2% so you can trust the readings you get.
