Eco-PCs
http://www.topten.ch
Clear, informative and economical!
Here you do find the actual most efficient elletronic equipment, especially PC-peripherie!
power consumption of a typical desktop-PC
Our recommendations for private end-users
2.6.2005:
Cherry produces the first solar-powered-keyboard worldwide:
http://www.cherry.de/deutsch/produkte/tastaturen_master_solar.htm
No recharching anymore, no cables and power saved!
Informations about the standby-consumption:
http://www.techwriter.de/thema/standby-.htm
Intelligent workaround with the USB-programmable extension lead
ReVolt Intelli-Plug or the Powersafer NC of http://www.powersafer.de
An article from the german Chip-magazine about power-saving and PC's:
http://www.chip.de/artikel/c1_artikel_12833949.html
All important points an eco-PC has:
- All not-used peripheral devices, like printer, scanner, speakers and so on will be switched off.
- TFT-Screens consume on average the half of the power a CRT-Tube consumes and emitt significantly less radiation (meant is Alpha, Beta-radiation, but also heat), that means your health will profit too! Regard on the well-known TCO-label, while buying a new monitor. New monitors should still fullfill the highest TCO-standard, today it is TCO05!
- The PC should only have the power you normally need!
Only for surfing 3-times a week in the web and writing letters you definitivly do not need the latest High-End-Pc with 400Watt-Power-supply, therefor an older modell with 1Ghz and 256MB-Ram is good enough, even the newest programms like Office 2003 and Windows XP do run without problems on such a PC. On EBAY you can find such PCs like sand on the beach ;-) if you don't have knowledge with Ebay, try to ask friends or relatives you surely will find there an ebayer fast ;-)
- Regard power consumption when buying new computers!
Generally recommendated are machine from "real" branded manufacturers like Dell or Fujitsu-Siemens.
Ideas for home made low power-PCs:
What about a 800Mhz PC with 35 Watt maximum power consumption: http://www.michael-dieckmann.de/
Your are a real geek and do not want to sell your high-end machine
what about underclocking? the newest and coolest trend in the modder-scene, that mades PCs less power hungry and less noisy.
Simply google for it, on interest!
