semi-green computing

Zbigniew Koziol softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 18 18:13:16 UTC 2009


S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Matt Price wrote:
>> a second seat/x-session on which my kids can surf the internet, type 
>> up homework, and also play educational games
>
> I am wondering whether it is not more energy efficient to have a 
> couple of less powerful low powered laptop / netbooks with no moving part?
Newer processors tend to have better performance normalized by their 
power consumption. The last diagram on this page illustrates that:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-cpu-power-consumption,1750-10.html

Hence, in general, the answer will be negative.

> Maybe even an OLPC powered from foot pedal?
I bet that using electricity provided from power plant is much more 
energy efficient than creating electricity from food we are eating by 
our organism ;)

>
> Other thing to think about is the power requirement and waste to 
> manufacture the computer and to throw away old computers. Wouldn't it 
> probably more green to get a couple of old servers, keeping them from 
> being thrown away, eventhough they use more power? I actually 
> wondering if one can get pretty powerful machine and run it 
> underclocked (so it run much cooler and less heat), will it be more 
> power efficient per processing power than running less powerful 
> machine as its specification (which will have more heat)?
>

zb.
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