Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

[Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>]

On 3/8/21 5:28 AM, songbird wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> ...
> > > Finding actual power consumption of a motherboard is apparently brutal.=
> >   Specs in
> > > the manuals to mine say nothing about power consumption. DDG & Google i=
> > n 20+
> > > minutes weren't helpful either.
> > I've encountered the exact same problem...
>    aren't there gizmos that measure the watts being
> drawn by clipping them around the plug that goes into
> the wall?
yes: "Kill A Watt" is one brand name, there are probably many others. I 
think some can actually record the highs and lows.

>    the rough numbers supplied are interesting thank
> you.  the calculator didn't work for me.
>
>
>    songbird