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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 420730" data-attributes="member: 83973"><p>The bottom end of the Core2Duo line - E5200/5300/5400 - should be quite low power in real world use. They are built on 45nm technology and come with quite a small (fanned) heatsink - about 30mm tall - so I wouldn't rule them out on power grounds. I suspect one of these could probably handle the server load too.</p><p></p><p>To give you an idea, I measured the power consumption of my HTPC a while ago (basically as my current system specs, but with only 2GB ram and 500GB disk) - 2W sleeping/hibernate, 60W at idle, 80W when playing 1440 x 1080i MPEG-2 movie file in MP. The older (65nm) E4500 in my system runs most of the time at the minimum 1.2GHz clock rate (and less than 40 degrees C) even when playing HD MPEG-2 content.</p><p></p><p>By the way, BlackGold products seem to have disappeared (there have been a few posts about it recently) - you might want to look for another tuner card.</p><p></p><p>Tony</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 420730, member: 83973"] The bottom end of the Core2Duo line - E5200/5300/5400 - should be quite low power in real world use. They are built on 45nm technology and come with quite a small (fanned) heatsink - about 30mm tall - so I wouldn't rule them out on power grounds. I suspect one of these could probably handle the server load too. To give you an idea, I measured the power consumption of my HTPC a while ago (basically as my current system specs, but with only 2GB ram and 500GB disk) - 2W sleeping/hibernate, 60W at idle, 80W when playing 1440 x 1080i MPEG-2 movie file in MP. The older (65nm) E4500 in my system runs most of the time at the minimum 1.2GHz clock rate (and less than 40 degrees C) even when playing HD MPEG-2 content. By the way, BlackGold products seem to have disappeared (there have been a few posts about it recently) - you might want to look for another tuner card. Tony [/QUOTE]
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