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- Power Supply
- A system that converts AC current from the wall outlet into the DC currents required by electronic circuits. A computer power supply converts AC into multiple DC voltages. ...
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- How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.
- I am growing increasingly fascinated by power distribution and regulating equipment. I know, sick admission. Eaton, one of the big uninterruptible power supply UPS and power distribution equipment vendors, is starting to talk up its new Energy Saver System as a tool that data center operators can...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Eaton, NetRiver, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale
- ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...
- Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building
- It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...
- Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you'll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually...
- Tags: Power Management, Specification, Power Supply, KWh, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Green Plug unplugged: Innovative power supply company teams with maker of wireless charging technology
- Universal power supply advocate Green Plug has struck up an alliance with WiPower, which is one of the companies that makes those pads that you can use to charge your cell phone, digital camera or MP3 player wirelessly. The two say that they...
- Tags: Team, Alliance, Device, Power Supply, Wireless, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Maingear introduces 'world's greenest gaming PC' for $799
- Maingear introduces 'world's greenest gaming PC' for $799This is NOT the IonThe Ion platform is the chipset designed for Atom processors. It is NOT the same as the GeForce 9300 chipset that is available for Core 2 processors. I advise that you change the wording in your story...
- Tags: Chipsets, NVidia Corp., Maingear, greenest gaming PC, power supply, gaming PC, PC, game
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Leave your computer on--the myths
- Leave your computer on--the mythsIt's not that simpleWhen do most people have their security updates installed? At 3 AM, the default setting for Windows, and it's that way because most people are not using the computer at that time. But the computer needs to be on for that to happen.Also...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, Leave IT
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo
- IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes comboYou're still going to need an Admin, trained by IBM upfront costSMBs can save 'beaucoup deniro' by using Linux and hire a certified Linux admin off the street--all ready to hit the ground running.Add to the purchase price...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, IBM Corp., app market, Smart Cube, iPod-iTunes, IBM AS/400, power supply
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- Psssst. Google's data center efficiency secrets. Pass them on.
- Psssst. Google's data center efficiency secrets. Pass them on.Great report! Hats off to Google for sharing.Do Google employees shut off their computers when they go home? Has Google published any hard figures in regard to what the best practice is in regard to whether or not to shut 'em down...
- Tags: Eliminate AC, Google Inc., Psssst
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- We interrupt this blog for a rant about UPS technology
- One of the most disrespected, or maybe just misunderstood, pieces of technologies in many data centers or under your desk for the matter is the uninterruptible power supply UPS, that lovely piece of equipment that provides a battery boost if you have a surge or an outage. Certainly, UPSes have...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Blog, Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-12
- Google reveals secret server hardware
- Google for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet operations at a conference about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency, reports CNET's Stephen Shankland. Instead of buying hardware from companies such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or...
- Tags: Google Inc., Battery, Stephen Shankland, Power Supply, Jai, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- SystemLoad 1.3 (Mac)
- SystemLoad is a diagnostic application assisting you in the detection of cooling or power supply problems with Apple Macintosh computers. The tool can put a user-definable load onto one or more processors. This can help in diagnosing the following issues: problems with the cooling system or temperature sensors problems...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Battery, Power Supply, Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme, SystemLoad
- Software downloads 2009-03-25
- COOLMAX CX-400B 400W Power Supply
- COOLMAX CX-400B 400W Power SupplyDo not buy this power supply!I build and take care of hundreds of computers for a University. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering. I have used many Coolmax@ power supplies. I placed an order for six model CX-400B Coolmax power supplies. Two failed within a...
- Tags: power supply, COOLMAX CX-400B 400W Power Supply
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- "Napping" data centers could cut energy use by 75%
- Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced a plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume by putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use. Thomas Wenisch, assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Server, Power Supply, PowerNap, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Monster PC upgrades - Without the monster price tag!
- Monster PC upgrades - Without the monster price tag!What about RAM?Did you forget about RAM? Most peoples RAM would be incompatible w/ these machines... not to mention that they might not have enough in their current machine to begin with, compatible or not. Theres another 50-100 on top of your...
- Tags: Video cards, power supply, video card, RAM, card, Monster
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Green power supply start-up hires new engineering veep
- The head of engineering from high-speed memory company Rambus has jumped shipped to join Green Plug, which is plugging pun intended technology for universal power adapters that work across a range of consumer electronics and computing devices. Kevin Jones, who becomes Green Plug's vice president of engineering,...
- Tags: Rambus Inc., Engineering, Power Supply, Green Plug, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware
- Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. Over the next few weeks I've planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit. The other day I posted the...
- Tags: ASUS, Board, Power Supply, Intel Core 2 Duo, 300W Power Supply Unit, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- HP boosts power efficiency features for latest ProLiant blade server
- As promised, I'm back this morning from the airport with a couple more thoughts about Hewlett-Packard's green tech introductions this week, specifically some notes on its latest blade server, the HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Blade. Here are the energy-related vitals on the product: - Uses...
- Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Power Supply, Enclosure, HP Compaq ProLiant, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supplyWho cares?particle colliders and whatnot- how about: let's try living our own lives and find out something useful once they've RUN an experiment! It's difficult enough dealing with the paramount necessities and the trivialities of our own lives- why bother to focus on others'?There's...
- Tags: Large Hadron Collider, power supply, Hadron Collider
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC
- OK, so what kind of PC can you build yourself for a budget of $2,000 plus change? Well, as it turns out, you can get yourself one heck of a system! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Game, PC, Video, Power Supply, Price, CPU, RAM, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
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