New 2600k system sips the power!

[Roy2001]

i7 2600K + ASRock Pro3-M + 2x4GB RAM + Intel 160G SSD.

Killawatt reads only 30W while I am typing this message. Wow.

 

[exar333]

:thumbsup:

 

[manimal]

Your doing it wrong! Disable all the power saving so you can epeen 5 gigglehurts!@


What did your 9650 pull at idle?

 

[Zap]

i7 2600K + ASRock Pro3-M + 2x4GB RAM + Intel 160G SSD.

Killawatt reads only 30W while I am typing this message. Wow.

That looks like a really nice non-gaming setup you got there.

Intel 32nm CPU platforms have been drawing that low power since Clarkdale launched a couple years ago. Sandy Bridge just one-upped it by going quad core.

 

[TemjinGold]

That's scary considering I have a light bulb that draws 5x as much!

 

[khon]

That's scary considering I have a light bulb that draws 5x as much!

You still use 150W lightbulbs ? Why ?

 

[wirednuts]

dimswitches. i still run 100w bulbs everywhere, but everything is on dimmers and rarely turned halfway up let alone full power. saves power and sets sexy mood lighting.

i hope when led's go mainstream though they will be dimmable by common dimmer switches. they should be anyway, i dont see why it would be hard.

 

[pm]

My 2600K (Asus P67 MB + 8GB RAM + Radeon 5770 + 300GB Intel SSD + 1TB Samsung HD) nuses about 67W idle at stock... but I think a fair bit of that is the Radeon 5770 video card. 30W idle system power is impressive.

Before I got a 2600K, I had a Core i7 920 (Nehalem) and I used to rest my feet on top of my sub-woofer so that they were sort of tucked in behind the power supply during the winter and my feet would stay warm. Between the power supply and the CPU and the video card, the power supply would always blow warm air and my feet would stay warm at night. When I got my 2600K, I remember one night I did the same trick and found that with my 2600K, the air was too cold for the trick to work any more.

dimswitches. i still run 100w bulbs everywhere, but everything is on dimmers and rarely turned halfway up let alone full power. saves power and sets sexy mood lighting.

i hope when led's go mainstream though they will be dimmable by common dimmer switches. they should be anyway, i dont see why it would be hard.

We have some CFL's that dim really well - just as well as incandescents. Took me a while to find them - I think they are Philips brand - most brands advertise "dimmable" but they don't work well. Once I found the version that dims well, I replaced everything with CFL's - with the rebate we get from our utility company, the bulbs pay for themselves in less than a year. On the flip side, we have a bunch of LED lights too and I haven't seen any that can dim - I'm sure it's coming but I haven't seen anything that's larger than about 40 lumens that is LED that can dim.

 

[Roy2001]

What did your 9650 pull at idle?

65W.

 

[smakme7757]

My setup sits at 125w while i'm just browsing the web and doing office tasks. Gaming takes the powerdraw up to about 300w

 

[TemjinGold]

You still use 150W lightbulbs ? Why ?

Didn't say I USE it. I just have it in my closet as a collectable thingy.

 

[TemjinGold]

My 2600K (Asus P67 MB + 8GB RAM + Radeon 5770 + 300GB Intel SSD + 1TB Samsung HD) nuses about 67W idle at stock... but I think a fair bit of that is the Radeon 5770 video card. 30W idle system power is impressive.

Before I got a 2600K, I had a Core i7 920 (Nehalem) and I used to rest my feet on top of my sub-woofer so that they were sort of tucked in behind the power supply during the winter and my feet would stay warm. Between the power supply and the CPU and the video card, the power supply would always blow warm air and my feet would stay warm at night. When I got my 2600K, I remember one night I did the same trick and found that with my 2600K, the air was too cold for the trick to work any more.

Remind me never to buy your sub-woofer off you...

 

[code65536]

I think this mostly speaks to the wonders of power-gating.

My i5-2400 on a GB H67MA-UD2H with 4x4GB of RAM, a 64GB Crucial m4, a 2TB 5900RPM Hitachi data drive and an Antec 380W EarthWatts sipped 31W when idle (and the 2TB HDD had idled-out and spun down). When I added a low-end GT220, the idle power consumption jumped up by 40%. If only GPUs had the kind of aggressive power-gating that Intel CPUs have!

 

[Pneumothorax]

i7-2600K @ 4.2ghz, Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4, 8 gb gskill, 160gb 320, 2x2tb WD greens, 1tb Cav black, 3tb Hitachi, 2 x HIS 6970 all on AX850@98watts idle! Of course, playing TW2 on uber sampling it goes up to 550watts lol

 

[aigomorla]

dimswitches. i still run 100w bulbs everywhere, but everything is on dimmers and rarely turned halfway up let alone full power. saves power and sets sexy mood lighting.

i hope when led's go mainstream though they will be dimmable by common dimmer switches. they should be anyway, i dont see why it would be hard.

ummmm u need to build them.
And they can cause headaches.. i should know ive been playing with LED's.

Basically to dim a LED, you pulse it... and sometimes if your eyes are sensitive you notice it and it gives you a slight headache.

 

[Idontcare]

On the flip side, we have a bunch of LED lights too and I haven't seen any that can dim - I'm sure it's coming but I haven't seen anything that's larger than about 40 lumens that is LED that can dim.

pm, not sure if you've got a Sam's club in your area but I bought some R30 dimmable LED's from Sam's club here in PA.

I don't actually use them on a dimmer (no dimmers in my house) but their main selling point was the dimmability. (I bought them to use in recessed can lights, and they do work great, but they were cheaper than the one's at Home Depot so that's why I bought the dimmable ones)

 

[Seferio]

You shouldn't have to pulse LED's to get them to dim. Typical LED bulbs use x# (maybe like 5-10) of .5W-1W LEDs. I would assume it would be simple to make LED bulbs dimmable as all you would need is to set the driver (pretty much an AC/DC transformer) output less power to each LED or you could just shut a variable amount of the LEDs to make it dimmer (although I believe the former method is probably how they are dimmed now).

 

[pitz]

Fantastic platform, isn't it? I don't have a kill-a-watt, but basically run a similar i7-2600, H67 configuration as you -- and came to the same conclusion -- video cards are evil power-suckers, and the Intel embedded solution is second to none on the desktop in terms of energy efficiency. The drivers keep getting better and better, especially under Linux as well.

I'm now in the process of removing unnecessary fans from my machine because the electronics themselves generate so little heat that getting rid of it isn't all that big of a concern.