New Power Consumption/FAH Thread

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mwarps

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Well boys and girls, I finally decided to get the nerd on and got myself a KillAWatt for $14.70 (yay for relatives selling them and yay for NH's lack of sales tax)

System stats:
Mobile XP Barton at 1400MHz at 1.45V (underclocked)
Fully loaded with FAH

Monitor is OFF
259 Watts

Monitor is ON
326 Watts

Idle (FAH off, yes, I know, a crime!)
Monitor OFF
248 Watts

Monitor ON
315 Watts


FAH alone takes 11 Watts.
My monitor takes 67 Watts.

Overclocked 2.4GHz at 1.775V
Fully Loaded w/ FAH

Monitor OFF:
339

Monitor ON:
402 Watts


Idle (FAH off)
Monitor OFF:
311 Watts

Monitor ON:
375 Watts

So that's about 76 Watts of power to increase my clock speed by 1.000Ghz.

Also, FAH at this high clock draws 27 Watts by itself.
 
Those numbers seem way high. What else is in your system? The reason I ask is that I've been seeing more and more reviews including system power consumption, and I have never seen numbers that high. Not even from a power-pig dual core P-4. Did you miss a decimal point or something? :)
 
I don't even want to think about my power consumption...

"I'm sorry Momma, I never mean to break you, I never meant to use all that power but tonight, I'm building some more boxen." "one more time"

lol, I'm really bored, but not on the K* level...

 
Ibanez3434 said:
lol, I'm really bored,
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Getting a life does wonders, you should try it sometime ;)


Thanks for the info MW... sadly i might have to move out of my free utils place soon... grr. now to find another..
 
i need to get one of those killawatt things. electric prices out in cali are going to dryfuck me :(


 
crumshot said:
i need to get one of those killawatt things. electric prices out in cali are going to dryf*ck me :(
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Get a bigger bathroom sink ;)

anyone have an idea how much it costs to run a p3 733 mhz :p (w/o monitor w/o oc w/o anything.. err :D cept the cpu and hsf)
 
crumshot said:
i need to get one of those killawatt things. electric prices out in cali are going to dryf*ck me :(
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New keyboard needed here!! damn I wish I could sig. that LOL



Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
Bill Clo said:
Those numbers seem way high. What else is in your system? The reason I ask is that I've been seeing more and more reviews including system power consumption, and I have never seen numbers that high. Not even from a power-pig dual core P-4. Did you miss a decimal point or something? :)
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Monitor is a 19" NEC FE991SB

4x 7200 RPM drives
Eheim 1250 water pump
2x pig 120mm fans
2x 80mm u1a panaflo
1gb PC3200
5-port switch
750VA UPS

Sorry, buf it it's a power pig dual core P4 and they aren't showing at least 300 watts full load, they're lying.

I'll do my XPC this afternoon for a comparison. It should be wayyyyyy less.
 
I think the numbers are high as well. My P4 3.2 Lappy's power brick isn't rated for more than about 150 watts and it's folding full time, plus has LCD, 1.25 GB RAM, and decent video card. The brick does get hot, but it still goes 24/7. I also have a P3 733 low profile business system that's got a power brick rated at about 60 watts. Heck, if I was drawing that kind of power from my farm, the breakers would have tripped by now.

 
Instead of starting new threads why not keep them together?
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single Sempron 2200/768mb RAM/10GB HD, 3 fans = 90watts at full tilt
single Sempron 2200/768mb RAM/200GB HD, 3 fans = 120watts at full tilt
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The question is, do you doubt the watt-meter, or something else. Every number I've posted is real. The full system specs should explain the numbers (see my second post, #11).

And sorry I missed the Power Consumption thread which wasn't on the first 6 pages of the forum.

EDIT:
Oh shit.

Watts =/ VA mode for AC. Meter was in wrong mode. I can barely see it since it's hidden behind the desk and I have to use a flashlight since it's not backlit.

Numbers are about 75% of those.
 
Numbers from my APC 1000 UPS:

P4 Northwood 3.2 HT w/ (2) instances
6800GT 256MB
2 GB Memory
16x D/L DVD Burner
16x DVD Rom
120 GB HDD
(2) Antec 120mm fans
Antec TruePower 430
<edit:> to include the Dell 20" Flat panel this is all viewed on </edit:>

idle:
Who knows? I am too scared that if I turn Folding off, I might lose my folding mojo

full-bore: (not gaming or burning anything though)
276 W <--- never varied more than 2W the entire 3 months it has been monitoring.

 
mwarps said:
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And sorry I missed the Power Consumption thread which wasn't on the first 6 pages of the forum.

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No problem, perhaps we need a sticky to point to important threads.
Has anyone collected avg. ppd for their readings?

 
The important setting on the Kill A Watt is the KWH setting. There you can measure the exact KWH you are consuming. I ran mine for a few days, took the reading times my current rate (we won’t even talk about that) which is $.10 per KWH.

Based on that times 24/7 usage it comes to $7.20 per month for this machine.

My big issue is my other machines draw less power but when I turned off 5 machines for one billing period my KWH usage dropped 1100 KWH per month. That worked out to about $25 per machine.

Needless to say it’s been an endless argument with the power company. They too took readings, agreed, then took the “so what” attitude. The PUC is no help whatsoever. Their official stance is:

“You should be happier it isn’t higher”.
 
Here are numbers, hope they help...


Dell SC1600
Dual 2GHz xenon, 512K cache, HT enabled, running 4 instances:
4 ECC 256MB DIMMs
2 Ultra SCSI 320 drives
3 7200 rmp PATA drives

Off = 8 watts
Idle = 115 watts
Folding = 190 watts

HP d5000, 3GHz P4 running 1 instance:
1 7200 PATA drive
1 512MB DIMM

Off = 2 watts
Idle = 66 watts
Folding = 115 watts

Home brew Athlon 2100XP (Tbred-B) running 1 instance:
AIW 9600 XT, 128M
2 512MB DIMMs
3 7200 PATA drives

Off = 5 watts, Sonata case and PSU
Idle = 120 watts
Folding = 140 watts
 
I too would like to add a little more personal experience with my power usage (measured by a kill-a-watt)

All measurements are with only the computer itself (no monitor). Most cases are just your normal steal type cases with very few fans and minimal hardware (HD, CD, FDD, NIC, G-Card).
All measurements are also at 100% load (this means its running F@H at 100%) unless otherwise stated.
All points per day(PPD) values are a average of PPD.

Laptop
1.5GHz Pentium M Acer Aspire 1681
30watts
225 PPD

P4
2.8GHz Pentium 4 HT enabled (2 consoles). Dell SC420 server
78watts (idle) / 138 watts (load)
250 PPD

AMD XP
AMD XP 1535mhz
(No power rating yet)
145 PPD

AMD Opteron
Opteron 252 @ 2.6GHz (Note: This has a lot of things in it, my main rig)
205watts
345 PPD

P3
P3 800mhz Dell XPS_T800r
84watts
75 PPD

P2
P2 350mhz
71watts
20 PPD
 
Another data point:
MaxVision Portable
dual 3Ghz Xeon
2GB RAM
4 hard drives (about 1TB total)
19 or 20" LCD screen
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Sucking 365 watts at FULL FOLD on a Kill-A-Watt.

 
And now a mobile's data point:

Pentium M 705 (1.5GHz, 1MB L2)
512MB DDR, pc2100
Radeon 7500 32mb @ 166/133

System Mode, Idle Power Demand, Folding Power Demand
1.5GHz - 1.484v, 20.2 W, 31.3 W
1.5GHz - 1.324v, 18.4 W, 26.3 W
600MHz - .860v, 12.5 W, 16.2 W

Undervolting the Pentium M; Power-efficient folding for the masses.
 
You all might find this page rather useful. Processor electrical specifications for hundreds, if not thousands, or x86 processors.

 
My AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ system draws 127 watts at idle and 168 watts under full FAH load.

My dual AMD 1.33ghz Thunderbird rig draws 201 watts at idle and 247 watts under full FAH load.

Readings taken with Kill-A-Watt from computer only, no monitor.
 
Another datapoint - for the PS3 - full fold 194 Watts, and a reliable 900ppd
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And it plays PS2 games and a mean Blu-Ray
 
Q6600 (GO), GA-965-DS3, 1 Gig, 40gig laptop drive, stock voltage and 3.0ghz, ATI x300 video. 165W running Linux SMP
 
[BRO]Alaskan;1031474825 said:
Q6600 (GO), GA-965-DS3, 1 Gig, 40gig laptop drive, stock voltage and 3.0ghz, ATI x300 video. 165W running Linux SMP
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Any idea on ppd?
 
Q6600 w/ an ECSG31T-M m/b - No overclocking - and 2GB RAM, old 40Gb HD 97 watts, Ubunto 64bit SMP, 2K/day (estimated)
running 2 instances, replaced HD with 320, 135Watts, 3400ppd
 
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