Re: hot boxes and power consumption
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Johann Koenig wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
> tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
>
> > This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
> > really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
> >
> > It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
sounds like you need to open the window ... or buy a household 20"
fan for $20 from home depo
-- moving air is a lot harder to heat up
( blow the air towards the door ... it will leak out under
( the door but be sure that all the air flow is one direction only
-- stagnant air in a closed room ( closed window, closed door )
is a guaranteed "room heater"
- keep light combustable paper away from hot spots
> > Even though I have power supplies that add up to >1400 watts I know
> > that isn't really the case because the fuses haven't blown.
adding up 4 systems with 400W power supply does NOT mean you are using
1600W of power
the power supplies are rated at maximum sustained load at specific
current on specific voltages
and with switching power supplies tyou can easily exceed
the rated specs for a few minutes and nothing will "break"
at that time
typically, all the mb, disk, cpu, memory etc should be using
less than 1/2 of the rated power supply to run "efficiently"
if you're running at maximum load, the power supply will be hot
- if you have a 14" or 17" monitor .. turn those puppies off
or get a KVM switch or manually move the keyboard/monitor/mouse from
machine to machine
- the older monitors is your biggest heat generators
- get a 14" TFT display to help keep the room cool :-)
c ya
alvin
> > Does anyone have any information or methods which might determine what
> > a"typical" computers power consumption might be?
>
> http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=normal+computer+power+usage
>
> The first hit seems relevant.
>
> Also, a page from cr.yp.to that gives power usage in the far right
> column:
> http://cr.yp.to/hardware/advice.html
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