alt.engineering.electrical

"JohnR66" wrote in message
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> "Will" wrote in message
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>> I'm curious if anyone has data on sources of power draws on a typical
>> server computer. On an AMD single dual core processor system that we
>> start up in an energy saving mode at GHz, we are measuring 350 watts
>> in idle state. No hard drives are installed. The processor itself is
>> specified to run at around 95 watts under load, so the additional 250
>> watts of energy use surprised me a little. How much of the remaining
>> energy utilization is going to chipsets and how much is going to fans?
>>
>> --
>> Will
>>
> How are you measuring the power used?
>
> Servers tend to have many fans. You could have 50+ watts just in fans.
> The chip set should use around 15-20 (wag).

And maybe 20 watts per PCI card times 3 would give another 60 watts. So
95 + 50 + 20 + 60 = 225, which still leaves about 125 watts unexplained.

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Will