Standby vs Active

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Sounds like you are in S3 and using about 5-6 watts of power.

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Richard Urban
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No it's not. I've had to use standby on many occasions. Most notably when
going to conventions and trade shows. I'd check e-mails every couple of
hours or so. Putting th computer on standby beats waiting for XP to load
every time. For the original poster, when I do this, I usually get 2 hours
of work over a 12 hour period on my battery.
 
In addition if you want to save some serious power - If you have an AMD
processor, enable Cool and Quiet technology (you need the AMD driver and
suitable MOBO). It dynamically adjusts the processor speed and it can even
drop power consumption to 50% by reducing CPU voltage when the computer is
idle. These changes are made many times a minute so you're saving power
every second. For instance my CPU is at 50% now while I'm typing this.
Which means that I use just 89/2 = 44.5W of power. I sometimes keep some
large files for download at night - It's nice to know that even though I'm
not in Standby, I save on my processor and monitor (by turning it off).

While going into Standby don't forget to turn off the monitor switch since
if you don't it still gets 110W and components are still being stressed.
 
In addition if you want to save some serious power - If you have an AMD
processor, enable Cool and Quiet technology (you need the AMD driver and
suitable MOBO). It dynamically adjusts the processor speed and it can
even drop power consumption to 50% by reducing CPU voltage when the
computer is idle. These changes are made many times a minute so you're
saving power every second. For instance my CPU is at 50% now while I'm
typing this. Which means that I use just 89/2 = 44.5W of power. I
sometimes keep some large files for download at night - It's nice to know
that even though I'm not in Standby, I save on my processor and monitor
(by turning it off).

While going into Standby don't forget to turn off the monitor switch since
if you don't it still gets 110W and components are still being stressed.
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No --- unfortunately I do not have an AMD. Something to remember though
when I next purchase a computer. Thanks.
 
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