Fol­low­ing on from the slight sur­prise that a new PSU is a poor invest­ment for a low power PC I decided I’d reas­sure myself that an effi­cient PSU is a good invest­ment for a typ­ical “enthu­si­ast” PC.

I have a server that oper­ates 24.7. It occurred to me that I may be able to save some money on elec­tri­city bills if I could reduce its power con­sump­tion. It already has a low power AMD Sem­pron LE-1100 CPU so the power draw of the sys­tem should be quite low, but the PSU is… Read more »