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Re: [LUG] 13W thin client/Torrent server

 

> The new Athlon X2 BE-2350 dual core CPU.  It's a 45W energy efficient
> chip.  I was reading a review of it earlier and on a motherboard with
> ATI/AMD 690 chipset (with onboard graphics) it only uses about 59W.

Sounds "cool"

> E-Buyer are doing the slightly slower BE-2300 chip for about £50 inc
> VAT.  After reading the review I've decided I want one.  The BE-2350
> supposedly even overclocks to 3GHz per core although it didn't say what
> the consumption was on that.

On a slightly related note, who was it that mentioned about power meters
(plug in to mains, plug device in to it, get reading for power
consumption) as we're looking at getting a similar thing for the office so
that we can calculate how much power we would save by turning things off
overnight..


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