On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 12:26 +0100, Joerg Bergmann wrote: > Some better PC power supplies have near to zero idle power, but cheap > power supplies show large idle power even nowadays. Minimal, perhaps, but not near zero. Ye canna change the laws of physics... Everything's inefficient, just to different degrees. You'd hope a power supply isn't so wasteful that it uses lots of power when not really under a heavy load, but some are. And then the efficient ones may not use a whole lot more power while under moderate load than while under light load. Not to forget, plug a computer into a power supply, even one that's sitting idle, it's still using power. To make an efficient computer, you'd have to remove all the devices that you won't need (burners, drivers, cards, etc.), and use a motherboard that doesn't have them all, itself. Some devices have low-power/standby modes, but they're still using some power, even then. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
