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Re: [LUG] And in other news...

 

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, James Fidell wrote:

> My dual-core 1.6GHz Atom box arrived today.  I'm going to stick 2GB RAM
> into it with a hard disk and DVD writer and see what sort of power
> consumption it gets.  My current desktop box -- a dual-core 3GHz P4
> sucks 120W even when idle, so I'm hoping this will make a decent dent
> in that and still be a usable desktop PC.

See if you can beat the 38 watts mine's sucking in an almost identical 
confgiuration...


Gordon

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