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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have a computer for games, and it become really hot when playing (using all ressources), and not when working. I thought that there was a distance in electricity consuming between gaming (or WCG) and working. It's 400 W electricity power supply, and computer is on by night too. I agree noone ask me to do it by night except interests in research discoveries and applications. There is a difference between games and WCG crunching. WCG (or boinc) doesn't use your graphics card. I guess most power consuming graphics cards use quite a lot of power, at least if there is more than one of them. In idle mode, graphic cards use something like 30W and in burn the most powerfull ones can go up to 120 Watts each. The sticker in your power supply only tells you the amount of watt's it can produce (mine says 430W, still consumption is usually around 120W). I suggest you calculate your computers power consumption with a power consumption meter. It cost's about 20 USD and can be found from any hardware store. If you still have more questions, please, don't hesitate to ask!
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I have a computer for games, and it become really hot when playing (using all ressources), and not when working. I thought that there was a distance in electricity consuming between gaming (or WCG) and working. It's 400 W electricity power supply, and computer is on by night too. I agree noone ask me to do it by night except interests in research discoveries and applications. There is a difference between games and WCG crunching. WCG (or boinc) doesn't use your graphics card. I guess most power consuming graphics cards use quite a lot of power, at least if there is more than one of them. In idle mode, graphic cards use something like 30W and in burn the most powerfull ones can go up to 120 Watts each. The sticker in your power supply only tells you the amount of watt's it can produce (mine says 430W, still consumption is usually around 120W). I suggest you calculate your computers power consumption with a power consumption meter. It cost's about 20 USD and can be found from any hardware store. If you still have more questions, please, don't hesitate to ask! Yes it will be an interesting experience. You're right about graphic card: it's changing my graphic card that oblige me to change power supply. |
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Dmitrio
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 6, 2007 Post Count: 68 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have a computer for games, and it become really hot when playing (using all ressources), and not when working. I thought that there was a distance in electricity consuming between gaming (or WCG) and working. It's 400 W electricity power supply, and computer is on by night too. I agree noone ask me to do it by night except interests in research discoveries and applications. BTW, you can use your graphic card to calculate another distributed project. There is a video-card client on Folding@HOME project. (If such info is forbidden - moderators, please, delete it). And as for the power consumption meter - you can use Zalman ZN-MFC2 computer panel. It is installed into 5'25 slot and shows the total power consumption, 4 temperature values and allows you to control the speed of 4 your onboard cooler fans. So using it you'll be able to set how hot your comp will be at any time :) Dmitrio  |
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