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Just one data point, but I have a machine I run Folding@Home on most of the time, and that is plugged into a Kill-A-Watt. The difference between idle and full
by ScottBurson 11y ago
Just one data point, but I have a machine I run Folding@Home on most of the time, and that is plugged into a Kill-A-Watt. The difference between idle and full folding power is about 70W, as I recall. Not trivial, but 1/5 of what you've estimated here.
15 years ago, the power difference was probably smaller, maybe quite a bit smaller -- modern CPUs are better optimized for low idle power.
- Alupis 11y agoMost schools don't have "modern" computers (by most definitions of the word "modern" at least).
- rtkwe 11y agoYou're probably running a much more powerful processor than the school's computers were. The report is from 2009 at the earliest based on the cited forum post. There were some very low TDP processors during the 2000-2009 time frame that were very common in education systems. Core 2 Duo was <35W TDP and was pretty popular from what I remember. P3 was in the same neighborhood too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_figures#Pentium_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...
- vectorjohn 11y agoYou were looking at laptop Core 2 Duo. Desktop was 65 to 105.
- rtkwe 11y agoAh my mistake.