Questions tagged [power-consumption]
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Why idle power usage is much higher under linux than macos on the same, intel-based macbook?
Recently I switched from macos to linux on a mid 2014 8GB retina macbook pro.
I noticed when I just edit text files in vi running in terminal, the battery runs out about twice as fast on linux.
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Why doesn't "System Idle Proccess" make cpu hot and consume power?
I recently found out that there is a proccess called "System Idle Proccess", which takes all of the CPU time while it's idle so that the computer doesn't crash or freeze.
Why doesn't the CPU ...
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How to debug tick_sched_timer high power usage?
My tick_sched_timer is using a lot of power, this is the output of powertop:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 24.7 W
The power consumed was 516 J
The estimated remaining time is 3 ...
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Laptop: Logging out increases power consumption
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon with Windows 10.
When I'm logged in it uses 9W, but when I log out, is uses 15W - consistent for more than 10 min.
Battery is fully charged and everything is up to date.
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How much power does a motherboard in laptops consume and which type of motherboard (ITX or ATX) is installed in laptops? [closed]
I was not able to find that information online. I saw that for desktops the power consumption does not go over 100W.
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How do I load test large UPSs?
I'm currently the only hardware repair person at my work and I've been left with a pile of UPSs that need to be fixed and tested. As it is I've been load testing the smaller (250-500 watt) units using ...
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Can I achieve a similar power usage to the i5-7500T with an i5-7500 by underclocking?
I'm upgrading my aging NAS hardware to something more recent, and I've decided that I will either buy an i5-7500 (3.4 base, 3.8 boost, 65W) or an i5-7500T (2.7 base, 3.3 boost, 35W). Given that the ...
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Side effects of lowering minimum processor state under power options to 5% for AMD Ryzen CPU
I recently switched from Intel CPU to AMD Ryzen 7 2700x CPU. For Intel CPU, under "power options"->"processor power management"->"minimum processor state", the default is 5%. For AMD using the "AMD ...
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Will a PSU rate-limit device's power consumption?
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I have a Computer with a 450w rated PSU. I assume ~80 efficiency which brings me down to 360 for the computer. My video card (gtx 1060) max consumption is somewhere between 120-134
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Measuring Intel Atom total power consumption
I have Intel Atom notebook with integrated Intel HD graphics. I want to measure total CPU + GPU wattage while running a game. To do so I'm using RTSS + HWInfo. There are CPU Package Power and GT Cores ...
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Upgrading my notebook's CPU to one more powerful yet more power consuming
I have a hardware question.
My notebook is a Dell Inspiron 1470. I'd like to upgrade my CPU from the original one to a more powerful one but I wonder if the significantly bigger power consumption is ...
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Estimate power draw with CPU usage
Is there a way to estimate the power consumption with the CPU usage that is shown in the task manager, if I know the TDP?
To be clear, I am talking about the power consumption of the CPU alone, and ...
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Trying to choose a low power draw M.2 SSD for mobile use, but power data is inconsistent?
I'm going to be using an M.2 SSD via USB3 in place of a USB flash stick, for my notebook. The main "heavy" use will be at home or work, to load it up or unload it with files, and in those places, the ...
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Power Consumption of Dell PowerEdge Servers
I'm completely new to this field and I apologise if this is the wrong forum.
I am looking to buy 3x Dell PowerEdge 1850 and 1x PowerEdge 2850 servers for home use. However, I am worried about their ...
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Power limit doesn't affect GPU's performance?
My mining rig's GPU each draws approximately 150 watts with an average hash rate (it's performance level) of 29 M.hash/s. While I was tweaking it's settings, I limited its max power draw to 135 watts ...
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Is it a bad idea to keep laptop suspended most of the time? [duplicate]
I have an old netbook (Acer Aspire One 531h) which I am planning on setting up as a Xubuntu powered Plex client for my parents. They will control it using the android Plex app and a WoL utility for ...
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Does power supply wastes power if connected to a laptop with an almost dead battery?
Does it keep chargin the battery all the time thus wasting power?
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What is typical power consumption of 2.5" laptop external hard drive connected to USB socket?
What is the approximate power and current consumption of a 2.5" laptop external Hard Drive 7200RPM SATA (300Gb), connected to a laptop USB port as an external hard drive?
I've heard that using a ...
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Difference between consumption in static and dynamic mode for DRAM
In all of datas about RAM, the consumption of this component is considered as equal to more or less 10 W. But I did'nt find if it's in static or in dynamic mode. I'm looking for the difference in ...
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Having a rough estimate of energy consumption of the computer.
I'm developing an app which needs to know about the energy consumption on computers (On windows). I realized the OS has no functionalities to support this directly, so my workaround is collecting info ...
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How to programmatically monitor power consumption on Windows?
I'm developing an app to monitor energy consumption of users' computer (for example how much energy it consumes on normal mode and energy save mode, battery status, etc) and I was wondering if there ...
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Making HDD to spindown when not mounted but to keep it spinning while mounted
Is it possible to make harddisk spin when it's mounted and to stop spinning when I unmount it?
I was finding answers on the internet, but there is not any precise answer for such a question. There is ...
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Does the amount of free space on a HDD have an effect on power consumption?
I a couple of friends on Facebook have started spreading a message stating that if you delete 30 old E-Mails from your inbox it would save enough power to light a light bulb for 24 hours.
They also ...
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High power consumption with 0% GPU utilization
How comes the graphic card's power consumption is sometime quite high while the GPU utilization is 0% (according to nvidia-smi's output)?
E.g.:
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Relation between GPU utilization and graphic card's power consumption
I wonder what the relation between GPU utilization and graphic card's power consumption is.
E.g. in the screenshot below, GPU 2's utilization is 92%, while the power usage is 129 watts out of 250. ...
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How can I get a low power virtual machine?
How can I get a low power Linux virtual machine?
I usually use virtual machines on my laptop to use some GNU/Linux programs, and I've found that at the very moment I start a Virtual Box machine, the ...
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Is there a way to pause mosh from 3 second UDP updates?
Is there a way to pause mosh in a Cygwin installation?
I think it's causing an excessive battery drain for my AndroidAP phone, since it's designed to be sending packets every 3 seconds, which is not ...
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How to make laptop only start charging when under 20% while always plugged in?
I want my laptop only to charge when under X% of battery is left, while always plugged-in to charger.
I have a laptop that has to be up in running for long periods and I want to lower the ...
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What aspects of running modern videogames cause most of the power consumption on GPU's?
A 3D game has to render polygons, their textures, detect collisions etc. and current GPU's eat an enormous amount of power. Which aspect(s) eat the majority of the power used on a GPU when a typical ...
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In Linux, how can I determine the power consumption of my HDD?
Is there a way to determine how much power my HDD(s) are using? I'm running typical (oldish) desktop with an 848P chipset and Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (Wheezy).
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How do I lower processor usage to its bare minimum operating? [duplicate]
I am running on Windows 7 and I have the habit of not turning off my computer at all. This is due to me hosting some services on my pc that have external users.
The question here is, how do I lower ...
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How do I find the power consumption of a sound card?
I have a custom built desktop PC where I carefully chosen the parts so that it is still relatively powerful but has very low energy consumption. Now after I see that the inboard audio is not able to ...
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How can I compare effective power usage of two CPUs / CPU+Mobo+Mem combinations?
I have this server which does mostly file sharing (with the associated storage). No serious number crunching and it isn't the firewall. My current box has a Celeron D processor (Prescott 336 2.8 GHz); ...
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Laptop power supply unit compared to PC power supply unit
PC power supplies are relatively huge compared to those used with laptops.
But why is this so when a laptop today can have an equal level of performance as a high end PC?
Are they both switching ...
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Choosing the right UPS
I'm trying to determine the size of the UPS I should buy. Ideally, I would like something to keep my system on for an hour in case of a power cut but I don't have the budget for that. Basically I want ...
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USB backlit keyboard power consumption
Does someone know the power consumption of an USB backlit keyboard like the SteelSeries Apex? I'd like to connect it to a Keyboard/Mouse USB Switch that goes to PC by one USB 2.0 cable. The mouse I'm ...
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Planning out an NES PC build (on the cheap) [closed]
I'm in the process of building a PC inside an NES case. I'm trying to get as much power out of it without breaking the bank. Rigging up the power switch and reset has been well documented, so this isn'...
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Pc consumes 13W also when PSU is switched off
I noticed that my pc consumes 13W also when PSU is switched off.
So I opened the PSU and I found a yellow box directly connected with the plug's socket, before the on-off button.
This yellow box has ...
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How many amperes and watts do I need for this setup?
I'm trouble calculating how many amperes I need for this setup. I know I need around 500-600W, but my current PSU is 600W but only has 14A on the +12V rail and I don't know if it can run this new ...
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RAM capacity vs power consumption in S3 Suspend-to-RAM mode
My netbook with 1GB DDR2 RAM module takes 16% of battery for 24 hours of S3 standby mode (STR - Suspend-to-RAM). That amounts to the power consumption of 0.32 Watts in standby.
That also means that ...
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Custom built machine has much higher power consumption than expected
I built a machine according to the specs of a computer magazine (c't, Germany). According to the magazine, the power consumption should be at around 10W.
I don't want to go into the specifics of the ...
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How much power did a computer consume for an hour?
Imagine a computer system having 450W SMPS . It have 65W CPU and 4GB RAM. The computer is a server which frequently uses RAM and CPU.
How much power does it will consume ?
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LCD/LED screens; how color affects the power consumption?
I have read on web, for CRTs black color would reduce the power consumption of the monitor but for LCDs it's the white color that reduce the power consumption.
It says "The way LCD's produce black is ...
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Power consumption percentages of notebook (and netbooks) components [closed]
I see many component manufacturers boast that their products use N% less power than their competitor or older version product, but nobody says how much it matters in comparison to total power ...
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UPS acting up after upgrading GPU
I have a second PC, hooked up to a 650VA UPS. I recently upgraded its graphics card from a Radeon HD6850 to a Geforce GTX580. When I updated the Windows Experience Index thingy, the UPS started ...
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Battery friendly environment for watching movies and reading e-books
On my laptop, I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2, which works great. But sometimes I just want to lie in the couch watching a movie or reading an e-book. At times like that, the power ...
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Reduce power consumption of gaming computer while idle
This is my current build:
EVGA X58 (first generation) motherboard
Intel i7 965 clocked @ 3.3 Ghz
3x DDR3-1600 Corsair RAM at stock timings and voltages
Corsair AX750 80 Plus Gold PSU
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How to make VGA display go into standby when no computer/laptop connected
At my work most people use laptops, in combination with a stand-alone Dell LCD (connected through a VGA cable).
Problem: if you unplug your laptop from the display, the display doesn't go to sleep (...
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pc watts usage comparison
If I have an atom pc drawing 40 watts at peak usage, does that really mean it is consuming less power than a 60 watt lightbulb?
I'm no electrician, and I have no knowledge of how electricity is ...
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P4 vs. I3/i5 *T in power consumption and performance
I am running an Intel P4 prescott with HT on my home server (linux file server on encrypted disks on software-RAID5 and virtualisation host for three further machines). The performance for this ...