Florian,

That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have
powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard
drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to
help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using
that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card,
motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components.

On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de> wrote:
>
> Hi guys!
>
> I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo
> consumes a
> quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W
>
> PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware
> is
> plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo
> as
> well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software.
>
> Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go?
>
> A short overview of my hardware:
>
> AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE
> Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated)
> 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair
> SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
> ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx)
> 2 SATA2 HDDs
> 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM
> Floppy
> USB mouse, keyboard and printer
> TFT screen (connected via DVI)
>
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