My Shuttle SG33G5M - Power consumption
Power consumption
May 10 , 2008
Shuttle SG33G5M with onboard VGA
My experiments with the NesteQ NV600 PSU which has a build-in power consumption display, showed the next values:
- idle operation: about 50 Watt
- operation peaks and high cpu-load: about 100 Watt
Shuttle SG33G5M with graphics card Asus EN8500G + PC62 PSU
The PC62 PSU is advertised as a 200 Watt noiseless power supply. Because a graphics card can consume a lot of power nowadays I was very interested in the combined power consumption of Shuttle SG33G5M + Asus EN8500G graphics card. The Asus card is rated as a system with 'low power consumption' of about 40 Watts. On several websites you can read that a 400 Watt PSU is necessary. Is this true? No...
Measurements show that the Asus 8500GT is really a low power consumption graphics card!
Thanks to a new Voltcraft Energy Check 3000 I have a nice impression of the power consumption of the computer + PC62 PSU.
During startup of the computer I saw peaks of 120 Watt.
- system idle: about 75 Watt
- system + blu-ray playback (cpu-load about 50%): 93 - 103 Watt
I think it's safe to state that the PC62 PSU with its high efficiency rate is an excellent choice for the Shuttle SG33G5M + Asus EN8500G graphics card.
SG33G5M configuration:
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