[ale] Weird ubuntu tricks...

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Brian Schenken wrote:
>  > Also make sure your powersupply has enough juice, sadly all the 250, 300
>  > watt power supplies we have lying around are becoming obsolete.
>
>  Can this really be true?

Yes.

> My computer (Athlon X2 3600, 4 sticks of ram, 1 hdd, one dvdrw) idles at less than
>  70 watts.

How are you measuring that?

Also, idle isn't really considered normal use of a PC, and I would
imagine some folks would prefer that even a moderate load wouldn't
overload their power supply. ;-)

-Jim P.

-Jim P.