Power Supply Idle efficiency

[Mark77]

Built the following build:

 

Asus P8H67-M-Evo

Single 4gb DDR3L SODIMM (in an adapter -- thank you AshleyAshes!)

Celeron G1610 (22nm Ivy Bridge) with Intel stock cooler

Enermax 365W EG-365W (very old, ~2001 delivered)

Crucial 240gb M500 SSD

Lite-On PATA DVD-RW drive.

 

Idle power is 39.7W per my watts up? meter.  With the Windows power setting turned to "balanced".

 

Is this typical? 

[GeorgeKellow]

 

[manikyath]

sounds about right, based on what my servers use at idle.

[STRMfrmXMN]

8 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

Built the following build:

 

Asus P8H67-M-Evo

Single 4gb DDR3L SODIMM (in an adapter -- thank you AshleyAshes!)

Celeron G1610 (22nm Ivy Bridge) with Intel stock cooler

Enermax 365W EG-365W (very old, ~2001 delivered)

Crucial 240gb M500 SSD

Lite-On PATA DVD-RW drive.

 

Idle power is 39.7W per my watts up? meter.  With the Windows power setting turned to "balanced".

 

Is this typical? 

Watts up meters are a bit overzealous like most consumer-grade tools to do that sort of job. It's probably using around 25W at idle.

[Mark77]

3 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Watts up meters are a bit overzealous like most consumer-grade tools to do that sort of job. It's probably using around 25W at idle.

Its the .Net version (which has a significantly better algorithms than the earlier verisons), and FWIW, it measured my 40-year-old refrigerator, for a week, at considerably less than the 'sticker'. 

 

Results are still about 40W better, at idle, than the Athlon64 X2 machine it will be replacing.   But I was expect 5-7W better.

 

 

[vanished]

If you're concerned about the cost of operating that system, check out the Power Supply Efficiency link in my signature

[Mark77]

23 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If you're concerned about the cost of operating that system, check out the Power Supply Efficiency link in my signature

Oh not concerned at all.  Its still half the power of what its replacing (with an upgrade path to boot if necessary).  Just that I 'sold' the customer on saving 50W, and it turned out only to be 40W.  If I could shave 10W off by changing the PSU, that might be worthwhile if I can get a good deal on a modern PSU. 

 

With the fast new PC, he might start turning off though at night (hates long-boot-up times, which his former Athlon64 X2 had, despite a Samsung 840 Pro SSD), which of course would make a lot of this moot.