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Most energy efficient PC and monitor?
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Re: Most energy efficient PC and monitor?
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by independent on Fri Aug 1st, 2008 at 04:42:43 PM MST
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A thinkpad X31 (ultraportable) will draw beween 7-11w off DC. I've measured it running off an SLA with a laptop car power converter. They have an separate video card but it is very modestly powered and only a 12" screen. I think I measured with the CPU undervolted as well. It's very miserly with power
It's not old enough to be run off the SLA directly.
I'm also into the low power PC thing as well and have a Athlon64 running a heavily undervolted Turion (laptop processor). It is very low power (even with a 10k scsi drive) but my PSU is what is holding it back, that PC runs at 80w. I think with a more efficient PSU it would run at 60w or even less, as the Zalman PSU I have draws 25w just in standby!
Laptops are the most efficient and you don't have to think about getting a separate screen for them. They are easy to find voltage adapters for 12v, although I don't know about 24v?
Most energy efficient PC and monitor?
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