"Green" system

[u_hsen]

i want to see if i can build a system that will use as less energy as possible. not to play any games but just to do word processing and internet surfing. this is my idea right now:

intel atom 330
intel motherboard
mini itx 80% bronze certified 300w power supply
western digital green 500gb harddrive
2gb ddr2 667 ram (1 stick)
dvd-burner drive
windows xp/7

what do you guys think? i don't think there's any ram that can "save energy"

i did some resarch a intel atom 330 is pretty much equivalent to a high end p4/ celeron processor so it should fine

these western digital green is showing some impressive energy savings:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page3.html

nearly half the energy used as regular hard drives. i did some research on the SSD. seems like the wester digital green uses less energy than the SSD

i also did a research that pentium E process may use less energy than intel atom?
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/cpu/intel-pentium-e2140-2160-page1.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-efficiency,2069-11.html


pentium full load: 24 watts, idle: 12 watts
atom 230 full load: 36 watts, idle: 28 watts.

and pentium is actually faster than atom?

 

[batuchka]

Err u are way off - clock for clock such old school chips like Pentium E and Sempron socket 754 is faster than an Atom!

 

[djbrad007]

Hi,

Zotac itx atom 330 motherboard is a lot better than the intel one.

Dual channel, integrated wifi + esata + geforce 9300.

Use less energy than the intel one.

Try that.

Brad

 

[Gedoe_]

dude just go with a lower end model of c2d they have pretty low idle times, and u get regular performance!


Id say G31+pentium dual e6500 or e7300

 

[Shadow703793]

^+1.Agreed. A G31/G35 with a 45nm Dual Core should be pretty low power. Also, you can under clock almost ALL the current and last gen CPUs.

Imo, an Atom even a Dual Core Atom, is painfully slow with Windows.