More Power

[thedutch]

I got this cute little toy for Christmas. It has measurements for all kinds of interesting and mildly useless statistics about the power quality and consumption of a device. Since I'm upgrading my processor I figured I'd take it for a spin and see how much dual core is going to hurt my electric bill.
So here's a comparison my my old P4 at 3.

Comments

[travisezell]

It's like computer porn, but literally!

[travisezell]

PS
Here I'm ripping a DVD I own from my optical drive to my hard drive for the purpose of backup and storage.

...a hilarious distinction.

[thedutch]

I just want to be clear that I'm well within personal use limitations.

[awong]

I bought myself one of those a few months back and was somewhat shocked at the actual power comsumption of my comptuers. :P Spurred me into trying to reduce their uptimes.

[thedutch]

But then you lose all those nice uptime numbers! There should be some combined metric.

[thedutch]

It's a shame you can't get one for each appliance and have them report back wirelessly. It would be cool to graphically see the power flux at any given moment.