Your maximum savings would be a whooping 4W. Don't you think much larger savings could be obtained by optimizing some other appliances than your PC? F.ex. an inductive stove can be over twice as efficient than a regular one. You're right, it's of course more of an obsession than something that real...

I have an external hard drive from LaCie that I use exclusively for daily backups. This means it's only typically used for something like 30min - 1 hour per day but the time does vary depending on how much new data I have managed to generate in the 24h period. I do the first obvious thing to do for ...

I'm currently using a TeleWell TW-EA100B USB ADSL modem that has no ADSL2+ support and while it is very reliable device it does consume about 5w. I thought the USB modems would have been lower in consumption than a full router. I've tested a few devices but they typically perform pretty similarly. I...

Now that I can link and found some references, here's a thread with some consumption information on various boards grouped by chipset: Stormverbrauchstest AM2 and AM2+ mainboards The problem is of course that most of those boards are out of production, but seems like for example the ASRock N68PV-GS ...

Well, apparently at least the J&W MINIX 780G-SP128 does support the more powerful dual-core 3250e X2, it has been used on this thread at Xtremesystems . Someone on Tom's also states that these should work on "most am2+am3 boards", whatever that means... So I guess there is at least a chance that it ...

A bit old thread already but to answer your question, I've been researching this for a home server also and apparently the most efficient chipset is the GF7025/7050 based ones. The absolute lowest consumption board seems to be the out of production Asrock AliveNF7G-HDReady (maybe the other variants ...

Iirc, it's just a very low power version of Brisbane and is a standard AM2 (or was it AM2+/AM3?) part. The Dell Zino HD uses a 780G motherboard so I'm guessing it's probably safe to pair it with that. But could the BIOS refuse to boot with it because it doesn't recognise it for example? What does i...

Hi, The Athlon 2650e seems to me like it might be a good AMD equivalent for Intel Atom. It seems to be readily available on eBay as a used part for fairly cheap too.The problem is that as it is only available to OEMs it isn't featured on many (any?) motherboard CPU support lists. Does this mean I ca...