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Watt: The standard unit of measurement of electrical power. One watt is one ampere of current flowing at one volt. Watts are typically rated as AMPS x VOLTS or...; Full Watt Definition >>

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San Clemente chipset gives HP lead on energy efficiency: The January 30th 2008 batch of test results are in for SPECpower_ssj2008 energy efficiency benchmark and it looks like Hewlett Packard has claimed the energy efficiency lead with their newest low-cost 2U HP Proliant DL180 G5 server. The secret to their success appears to lie in the selection of the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, Power Supply, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Watt, Intel Corp., Chipsets, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer: The 50W no-compromise dual-core commodity desktop PC is now a reality!I have some great news for the green computing world. The 50W no-compromise dual-core commodity desktop PC is now a reality! It all started a few months back when I looked in to the possibility of building a main stream...; Tags: Desktop, Dual-core, Power Consumption, Memory, Motherboard, Computer, Watt, Desktop Computer, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-12-19
Build the $340 NAS for half the price but double the speed: The thing that has always bothered me with the NAS (Network Attached Storage) market for consumers is that it's very high margin yet the products deliver very poorly on performance. While that might be great for the product manufacturers bottom line, it isn't so great when you're the consumer. Typical...; Tags: Hard Drive, NAS, Media Center PC, Performance, Power Consumption, Watt, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Media Center PCs, Performance Management, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, Linux, Hardware, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-10-22
Western Digital 'GreenPower" drive halves power consumption: The Western Digital "GreenPower" WD10EACS 1 terabyte hard drive is one the cheapest hard drives you can buy at this capacity ($300 including shipping) but it's also the most energy efficient. The drive has a technical specification of 4 watt idle which I measured fluctuating between...; Tags: Power Consumption, Western Digital Corp., Watt, Seagate 7200.10, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-10-19
Finally a reasonably cheap 80 Plus power supply: One of the key criteria to getting a new EPA Energy Star rating on a new computer is having an "80 Plus" power supply. A computer power supply that is more than 80% efficient at 20%, 50% and 100% load can earn an 80 Plus logo. Finding an 80 Plus...; Tags: Solution, Power Supply, Watt, SPI220LE, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-24

Is the 50 Watt PC possible using commodity parts?: I've been testing a bunch of systems from AMD and Intel in the last few months trying to build the ultimate low-power PC using commodity components and I can say I've gotten close. I wanted to get to the magic 50W marker at least for idle power consumption which is...; Tags: Processor, PC, System, Power Consumption, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Watt, Intel Corp., George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-18
Power pushing 2.5" drives to tipping point: Remember 5.25" hard drives?I remember 18" hard drives. Then 14", 9" and 8", 5.25" and now 3.5". The secular trend is clear: disk drives shrink. So when do we make the leap to 2.5" drives in the data center.Traditionally, the jump started when the smaller form factor could hold a...; Tags: Data Center, Watt, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-08-20
New Stepping G Intel Core 2 chips clocking over 4 GHz: The latest manufacturing revision of 65nm Intel Core 2 Duo chips based on the new "G0" Stepping is hitting stable clock speeds in excess of 4 GHz according to Tomshardware. With the help of some extreme motherboards like the Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 which Gigabyte calls "Ultra Durable 2" technology and some DDR2-1000...; Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Complexity and the greening of the datacenter: The majority of datacenters were built 15 years ago when power requirements and densities were much lower. Power consumption has risen from 2 kilowatts to 40 kilowatts over the past decade. Consumption per square foot tripled from from 40 watts to 100 watts from 2004 to 2005, and it is...; Tags: Data Center, Watt, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-01
MacTel's carbon footprint: Heres the "Future" paragraph from an open letter, signed by Steve Jobs and posted on Apples site on May 2nd, discussing steps Apple has taken, or is taking, to develop and hold a green advantage over competitors including HP and Dell....; Tags: Unanswered questions, Media bias/incompetence, General; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Setting up the 2.5 TB hot-swap array: Continuing from yesterdays blog where I introduced you to the cheap 2.5 TB storage array, were going to look at how this is installed in to the PC. Once all the drives are attached, youll need to toggle on all of the drives using a paper clip. This...; Tags: Storage, Servers, Security, Networking, Intel, Infrastructure, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Desktop, AMD; Blog posts 2007-05-01
Power, notebooks and solid state disks: My much-loved HP Omnibook 300 notebook went from a 4-hour battery life to 10+ hours when used with a compact flash card instead of a disk. Your laptop won't. Ever wonder why?Me too.So here's a short course in laptop power.Measuring powerThere are a lot of wrinkles in the power game,...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Living with Windows Vista: Week one report card: Its been one week that Ive not used Windows XP on my main computer and actually living with Windows Vista so here is my progress report. As some of my readers know, Ive was having stability problems with my main computer as well as a number of other annoying...; Tags: Desktop, Energy efficiency, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Intel, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Security, Vista; Blog posts 2007-02-20
Intel unleashes Quad Core at IDF Fall 2006: At the fall 2006 IDF (Intel Developer's Conference), Intel widened its lead in the Server and Desktop market by trotting out four quad core server processors and a 2.66 GHz quad core "Extreme Edition" desktop processor. But no one told these real-world applications that the Intel quad core chips...; Tags: quad-core; Blog posts 2006-09-27
Who to believe on power consumption? AMD or Intel?: AMD is on a full marketing counter offensive after the unanimous praise heaped upon Intel's new Core2 "Conroe" desktop processor and are claiming that Intel's low-power ratings are based on a skewed metric. AMD's reasoning is that AMD's TDP (Thermal Design Power) rating is based on maximum power...; Tags: Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.; Blog posts 2006-07-17
Intel's Otellini fields softballs at the Churchill Club: As my colleague David Berlind wrote in his post this morning, Intel has lost the high ground (performance benchmarks) to AMD in the expanding x64 processor world and is involved in a potentially explosive antitrust litigation with AMD. While AMD has picked up some significant market share, Intel is still...; Tags: Intel Corp., watt, Paul Otellini; Blog posts 2005-12-02
Power Use: I've always taken electrical power pretty much for granted: it's a monthly bill, you sign off, and get on with real work. Looking back, I think the last time I've been genuinely concerned about power came when we couldn't pick up a nearly free 8750 from a bankrupt competitor because...; Tags: Sun Ray, watt; Blog posts 2005-07-26
Watts and Volt-Amps: Powerful Confusion: This paper describes the differences between watts and volt-amps (VAs) and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment.; Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Watt; White papers

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Sony CDX GT620IP - radio / CD / MP3 player: Standing on the shoulders of the entry-level Sony CDX-GT420IP, the CDX-GT620IP delivers as-standard iPod connectivity with some stylish and useful faceplate controls, including a dedicated browser interface for digital media libraries. With the ability to play a range of digital-audio discs, an aux-input jack, and some advanced audio tweaking capabilities,...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, MP3 player, MP3, CD, radio, CDX-GT620IP, Apple iPod, Sony Corp., Sony CDX-GT420IP, digital audio; Product reviews 2008-05-02
Discover this: "Discover" and its own carbon footprint: "Discover" Magazine profiled their own publication's carbon footprint. Here's the whole article, a brave move not likely to be popular among mag publishers. Here's some of what they found: "Two and one-tenth pounds of carbon dioxide. That is our best estimate of what is emitted...; Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Ton, DISCOVER, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-30