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Research: actual power usage modern PC's

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Research: actual power usage modern PC's Research: actual power usage modern PC's
How much power does a PC actually use and how to minimise this
Author: Koen Crijns / Editor: Martin Brijs 02/06/2007
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Testresults

The follwing tables show you the results of our power consumption tests.

CPU Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Intel Pentium D 805 Intel Pentium 4 530 Intel Celeron D 351
Chipset Intel 975X Intel P965 Intel 945P Intel 945P Intel 945P
Memory
 2 GB DDR2-800 1 GB DDR2-800 1 GB DDR2-667 1 GB DDR2-533 512 MB DDR2-533
graphics ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX nVidia GeForce 7600 GT nVidia GeForce 6600 GT nVidia GeForce 7300 GS
Hard disk WD Raptor 74 GB Samsung HD160JJ Samsung HD160JJ Samsung HD160JJ Samsung HD160JJ
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3DMark06

407 W 220 W 196 W 192 W 132 W
PCMark05 CPU 201 W 170 W 180 W 184 W 140 W
Idle 186 W 136 W 124 W 133 W 97 W
Standby (S1) . 144 W 110 W 120 W 78 W
Standby (S3) 12 W 9 W 6 W 6 W 6 W
Hibernate 10 W 7 W 5 W 5 W 5 W
Switched Off 10 W 7 W 5 W 5 W 5 W

CPU AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ AMD Athlon 64 3000+ AMD Sempron 3400+
Chipset
 nVidia nForce 590 SLI nVidia nForce 570 SLI nVidia nForce 570 SLI nVidia nForce 4 nVidia nForce 4
Memory 2 GB DDR2-800 1 GB DDR2-800 1 GB DDR2-667 1 GB DDR400 512 MB DDR400
Graphics
 nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX SLI nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX nVidia GeForce 7600 GT nVidia GeForce 6600 GT nVidia GeForce 7300 GS
Hard disk WD Raptor 74 GB Samsung HD160JJ Samsung HD160JJ Samsung HD160JJ Samsung HD160JJ
. . . . . .

3DMark06

331 W 248 W 194 W 155 W 132 W
PCMark05 CPU 282 W 185 W 205 W 138 W 125 W
Idle 213 W 136 W 134 W 112 W 89 W
Standby (S1) . 121 W 95 W 82 W 84 W
Standby (S3) 8 W 8 W 6 W 11 W 7 W
Hibernate 4 W 6 W 5 W 8 W 6 W
Switched Off
 4 W 6 W 5 W 8 W 6 W

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