Power draw of power supply. 700watt vs 1000 watt, etc

[John Martin]

There's still a lot to be said for the old incandescent light bulbs in
winter.  -j


On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> John Martin wrote:
>>
>> Whatever power you draw from the wall will end up as heat. The useful
>> power will end up as heat in your components: CPU, memory, drive,
>> video card, etc. The useless power, that wasted due to inefficiency of
>> the PSU, will end up as heat in the PSU itself.
>>
>>
>
> Once, when I was not yet in Russia, during winter which happened very cold
> here for my wife in Russia, I advised her:
>
> Close the windows so that light can not go out. Turn on computer running all
> the time. Turn on refrigerator and open the door of it. Put on the lights
> everywhere.
>
> She listened to me, not really fully believing, and did all that. Fuses went
> out! ;)
>
> But now I can not sustain the hot here. Perhaps unusual summer this year.
>
> zb.
>
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