things & stuff » Electronics http://www.curlybrace.com/words Pictures. Now with more words! Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:47:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Entertainment Center Power Consumption http://www.curlybrace.com/words/2008/05/27/entertainment-center-power-consumption/ http://www.curlybrace.com/words/2008/05/27/entertainment-center-power-consumption/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 16:10:52 +0000 Jeff Fitzsimons http://www.curlybrace.com/words/?p=118 I used my Kill A Watt to measure the power consumption of various items in my entertainment center.

PVR

Antec case, Biotstar TF-7050M2 motherboard, Hauppauge tuners, 2.5″ Hitachi drive.

  • 80 watts peak at bootup
  • 65 watts nominal

Dell 2001FP 20.1″ LCD monitor

(not normally part of my entertainment center, but I was using it to reconfigure the PVR’s BIOS, so it was in the general area)

  • Monitor off: 1 watt
  • Monitor asleep: 3 watts
  • Monitor active: ?? watts

XBox 360

  • Off: 3 watts
  • Starting up: 160 watts
  • Loading GTA IV: 155 watts
  • In-game: 188 – 195 watts

Samsung 32″ CRT television

  • Off: 3 watts
  • Startup: 483 watts (momentary)
  • On: 92 watts
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