[svlug] HTPC: Asus P5E-VM HDMI G35, GeForce 8200 mGPU or other?

[Florin Andrei]

Alan DuBoff wrote:
> 
> IMO, most all AMD system run hotter, which in the end chews up 
> some power. The newer Intel Core2 quad chips scream in my 
> experience, and Intel is much better with low power. In 

I guess it depends on the case.

My MythTV server has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200 and the CPU cores are 
around 75 deg F when idle. That's pretty much room temperature. They 
barely get to 100 F when playing 1080p, and that's with software 
de-interlacing enabled (I need to figure out how to send 1080i to HDMI 
and let the TV deal with it). I'm using the cooler that came with the 
CPU. The "smart" power saving mumbo-jumbo is enabled everywhere (BIOS 
and operating system).
The Gigabyte GA-M78SM-S2H motherboard has a GeForce 8200 chip on it 
that's passively cooled.
The system has only one hard-drive and there are no cards plugged into 
the motherboard (but that will change when I get the DVB-S card).

One day I'll put a power meter on it, but until then, my guess is the 
system is actually pretty "green". :-)

The only thing I need to change is the power supply. The current one is 
very cheap and quite noisy (not very efficient either, I guess). I need 
to upgrade that, but it's not high priority.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/