[Novalug] Older PCs get no respect!

[Ed James]

Quoting "Ed T. Toton III" <bones at necrobones.net>:
...
> It's certainly hard to beat ~15W when comparing to a desktop system,
> but it's also important to note that your P2 is almost certainly not
> drawing anywhere near the full 400W of the PSU. How much power draw
> you're dealing with is a game of trade-offs.

Case in point, my P-III with a 380 PSU draws 65 watts during bootup,
and a lot less when idle.  Even less when I put the HD's into sleep
mode.

FYI - I switched the colors on my CRT from black text on white back
ground to white text on black background (I do a lot of programming
and editting) and the in-use power of the CRT dropped by 25 watts).
...

> I have a system that I use as my firewall, using an Asus P2B and a
> 300MHz Celeron (P2), and it only draws about 60W average (using a CF
> card instead of a hard disk helps a little here), as far as I can tell.
> And with the complex routing/NAT rules I'm using, it's certainly not
> too shabby for rescued hardware. :)
...
My current aim for building a machine is using a mITX board without
a PSU.  I've seen boards that plug into the mobo power plug and are
fed by 12 volts, as in a battery.  Using laptop drives, though more
expensive should also reduce power.  The goal is run the system off
of a small solar panel/battery storage (clunky car battery).  Ya,
I know it's kinda costly, but it's just a "for fun" experiment.

Which brings me to the question - has anyone here tried something
like the above yet, with Linux, of course?  I'm interested in
local shops that sell mITX mobos, cases, etc.

Ed James
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