Power consumption in desktop computers

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Mon Dec 29 19:44:31 PST 2003


Hi,

Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
>> The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle.
>>
>>> Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s?
>>
>>
>>
>> No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle.
> 
> 
> Which is bullshit becouse most of the CPUs those days don't run
> desktops and text processing.

And all servers run 100% CPU load all the time?

You also should check what he was asking originally.

Erich



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