switch that turns off everything. The power switch plugs into the wall socket, and my computer power cord plugs into the back of the power switch. If I'm going to be away from the computer for a while I shut it down and then turn off the power switch so...

Firefox under Linux. I was more under the impression that now Intel was going to push low power watts as a means of marketing their chips. I took this to mean that the chip with the lowest power usage wins the day. But now this brings up a good question,...

AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE vs. Intel Core 2 Duo E8600. Alright, so, I'm buying a new computer, and I'm a little stuck between these two processors. The computer will have a very powerful ATI (the second highest they offer) graphics card and a liquid cooling...

power consumption increases with each new generation, true (the real barrier to Moore's Law - it's not how small you can make the parts, but how hot they will run at and how much power they will consume that is the big problem), but i don't see a reason to...

Well I splurged today, what do you think?. I ended up grabbing the BFG 9800 GX2 which should be about 475 for the card which is not bad. I also picked up the new Antec Twelve Hundred case and the ABS Tagan 700 Watt power supply. I then finished it off...

about this machine comes from U.S. patent #6,526,491 as issued to Sony in February 2003 for a "memory protection system and method for computer architecture for broadband networks." Here's the abstract: A computer architecture and programming model...

computer, but upgrading to a new videocard, your power supply might not be able to handle it. If so, it will cause crashing and instability. What they are getting at is newer cards consume more power and if your power supply isn't sufficient it can cause...

New laptop from asus. Any of you guys know what this laptop has inside? I think it's quite cool but hope it has some computing power too. . Any of you guys know what this laptop has inside? I think it's quite cool but hope it has some computing power too....

faster than anything I have right now. I've taken the right computer for the job route for a few years and am now eager to get my hands on some computing power that will put a smile on my face :) The P II X4 905e is based on the latest gen archietecture,...

I have said. Power supplies have an effecience rating which is simply Power used by load (ie computer) divided by Total power. Note in my example 249.6 Watts (computer Power consumed / 312 Watt (Input power to PSU) = .8 (80%) which is the Efficency rating....