Emanuel Berg wrote: > Unfortunately the motherboard was worst-case 166.2 W, not the > previous estimate/approximation at 80. > > The 166.2 (motherboard W really doesn't include the CPU?) > > So no it says it is is worst-case 277 W, and with +30% wiggle > room it is 361 W :( > > back to passive 400W I guess ...
i tried to build my system to use as little energy as possible but it can still play videos and compile programs. the idle watt use or when just sitting here typing text in a terminal is 57-58watts. if i turn off the speaker system i can reduce that down to 46-47 watts. if it goes idle with the screen blanker it will go back to about 20 watts. booting up and loading will increase the load to about 100 watts at times. apt-get update will peak at about 180 watts when it is unpacking the index files. i haven't yet done a kernel compile or big build but i think it will be in that range. i only have one tiny CPU fan and i love that it is a such a quiet machine compared to my last monster which sounded like an airplane taking off when it ran. no matter what you end up getting i hope it makes you happy with the results. :) 400 watt power fanless PSU. all seems to be doing ok so far other than some kind of lock up (keyboard or compositor issue not sure yet) once in a while. songbird
