24 Mar
2021
24 Mar
'21
10:34 p.m.
On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 14:17 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
my new workstation system is a little too power-hungry to make me feel good about leaving on all the time.
It might be worth measuring what it actually uses.
A system may have a 500 watt power supply, but that's the amount its able to supply, not what it continually uses. The hardware that's installed will determine what is actually drawn from the supply, and if the system isn't actually doing much, the power draw will be a lot lower.