More Power!!
No – that’s not right! We need less power.
Did some more testing before going to bed last night. First was my HTPC while off. That draw’s 3.4 – 6.7 watts. While off. Not in S3 Standby mode, but off. A little bit of thinking and I remembered that there are other things running, like Wake-On-Lan etc, which I could probably turn off in the bios and save me leccy.
The other thing was the socket that has the wireless router and cable modem attached. This I expected to be low. Nope this is running at 13.2 idle and peaks at 13.9 while downloading a 150mb file at 230kb/s and running uTorrent.
The only things I really want to test is my main rig, my new monitor, my old monitor and big TV.
July 5th, 2008 at 09-23
http://lifehacker.com/software/stuff-we-like/smart-auto+off-computer-power-strip-148159.php
July 5th, 2008 at 12-18
You read LH too?-)
Problem with that is that the HTPC isn’t off when we want everything off. Say we decided after watching downloaded Top Gear to watch normal TV. The HTPC would be turned off, which would turn everything else off.
Or if we used the TV off as the power off then the HTPC would be on downloading and then I (or Mrs Bear) decided to turn the TV off then *boom* everything else would turn off too. Also undesirable.
Better upgrade and reduce power that way:-)
February 23rd, 2009 at 23-58
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