Power consumption in desktop computers

Marcin Dalecki mdcki at gmx.net
Mon Dec 29 19:12:18 PST 2003


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.



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