ziz a dumb question?

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote:
> 
> Servers tend to be worse - I have a matched pair of Acer servers with 
> single 3GHz P4 class Xeons, 2GB of RAM, 3 x 7200rpm disks and dual NICs. 
> Those systems pull 220W and they're the next ones I'm ditching for 
> something that uses less power!

. . . and they still draw significantly less power than an LCD television
plus DVR, even if you add in the power draw of an LCD monitor.

If you're really concerned about power consumption, make sure that you
look for the "bottleneck", just as you would when trying to get better
performance out of your computer or your network.  Even if your computer
is drawing a whole lot of power, you might be better off replacing your
television and DVR unit with a computer than replacing the computer with
another computer that draws less power.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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