I know this isn't directly a power supply statement / question but I don't know of anywhere else this would fit.
With that, I've been doing some tests with my Kill-A-Watt seeing what clocks use what power and how effective Intel's C-State really is (it takes my idle down about 20 watts in case anyone wants to know).
Anyways... I came into my room and looked at the wattage and it read 80 Watts... I thought, "That's really high especially since my HDDs just kicked off". So I moved my mouse to see if anything was running and as soon as it wakes the monitor back up, the power draw drops to 59-60 Watts! I don't have a screen saver, the monitor was just in sleep mode, and when it resumed i couldn't find it to be working on anything.
Does anyone know why a PC would draw More power when completely idling than when I wake the monitor from sleeping?
PS: I didn't have the monitor hooked to the Kill-A-Watt, it was Just the tower, so that might take away some of the shock
With that, I've been doing some tests with my Kill-A-Watt seeing what clocks use what power and how effective Intel's C-State really is (it takes my idle down about 20 watts in case anyone wants to know).
Anyways... I came into my room and looked at the wattage and it read 80 Watts... I thought, "That's really high especially since my HDDs just kicked off". So I moved my mouse to see if anything was running and as soon as it wakes the monitor back up, the power draw drops to 59-60 Watts! I don't have a screen saver, the monitor was just in sleep mode, and when it resumed i couldn't find it to be working on anything.
Does anyone know why a PC would draw More power when completely idling than when I wake the monitor from sleeping?
PS: I didn't have the monitor hooked to the Kill-A-Watt, it was Just the tower, so that might take away some of the shock
