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the PC uses almost the same amount of power whilst just ripping a CD, as it does whilst playing games
beyond a bright laptop monitor, the major sources of power use:
- GPU (gaming or other sustained GPU load)
- optical drives (high speed motors and lasers!)
I hadn't considered other people run optical drives still, but I do for ripping music and video, and yes they consume a very healthy amount of power. Typically they have their own power supply, but if not they tend to use 2 USB ports at a time and try to draw max power from both.
- GPU (gaming or other sustained GPU load)
Velocio
branwen
Ah, that makes sense will look into that 👍
@ectoplasmosis just got a couple of smart plugs to measure energy use, and unrelatedly a CD drive to archive CDs, and realising that the PC uses almost the same amount of power whilst just ripping a CD, as it does whilst playing games.
I'm resigned to games being a relatively large power sink, but wondered if I could optimise general power usage for when I'm just browsing or doing other non-GPU bound tasks