Carbon diet

Computers

old blue

Pentium Pro 200 / ISA motherboard in old blue case

Poweroff with this motherboard spins down drive and halts CPU but does not go into powerdown mode. Results in 31 W draw when shutdown.

• 1 Tulip card
• 1 Sound card
• 1 dual port EPRO100 card
• Video card (ISA I think)
• Intel Mars motherboard PIIX chipset

70W at boot time
36W quiet time
31W HD spun down

Spinning down hard drive saves 5 watts

Power supply has OFF switch; with the various and sundry network cards installed it burns