It's more when you add in monitors. Each can draw 100-200w (~1-2 amps). More on powerup when the degauss kicks in, David Phillips said: > Rick Meyerhoff writes: >> The last time we had a fest in a conference room we blew out the >> power. If we estimate 20 machines at 2 amps per machine, >> that's 40 amps. That's a rough estimate > > While it is always good to be conservative in your estimates, it seems > high. A computer usually uses the most power when it is starting, since > that is when the drives spin up. High end video cards might use more > power, but I've never measured since I don't play Quake on my servers. > I've seen different racks of eight servers pull between 1.4 and 6 amps > total. I've seen a box with eight IDE drives never go above 1.1 amps. > > Two amps is probably a safe estimate, but a more realistic one might be > one amp, assuming everyone isn't playing Quake on a GeForce 4 or > powering up at once. > > -- > David Phillips <david at acz.org> > http://david.acz.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list