My HTPC that was connected to my cablecard tuner started acting up.
This was an AMD Athlon 2 Dual Core system. I have the system on a UPS
and am able to monitor it's power usage through the UPS. The AMD system
was pulling about 120 watts on average. The system started acting up
(it turned out to have a memory problem) so I pulled it and replaced it
with another system I had running an Intel Celeron G530 processor.
The
G530 is the baby brother to the i3 family of processors. The G530 is
rated at 65 watts TDP, I was surprised to see my UPS indicate about 10
watts of power while idling. This is with windows up, Media Center
running but no shows recording or being watched.
With this low of power
usage I'm going to dump the MCE Standby Tool and stop putting the PC
to sleep in between shows. I think keeping the computer up all the time
will make it more reliable and user friendly.
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