Thread: Making a "green" PC

Hi guys, i was planning on making a nettop with very low power consumption, Low costs and was thinking it would be gr8 if i could re use old hardware to decrease E waste.

I have decided to got for a Sempron LE 1250(2.2Ghz ,single core,45W TDP,AM2) . Its Rs 1700.

Now, if any of you have an old AM2 mobo,old RAM (ddr2) or some other junk(to u) which u think will be helpfull, plz send it to me, I will PM u my address.

I figured with electricity costs higher now, and i cant use any solar/wind, cos i stay in an appartment, i could reduce my consumption. On my existing comp(which stay on almost 24x7), my GPU and overclocked CPU waste too much power at idle...

i would be using it to surf the net, downloading and playing warcraft 3...

Any other tips to save power would be welcomed.

Thx

Rajan

you can also go with ATOM processor which should be even less power consuming.

An ATOM single core has a TDP of 4W(8W for Dual core), but the major chunk of power is consumed by the 945 chip. It runs very hot too.

I m guessing frm different power consumption numbers i have see abt the atom that this will consume abt 10-15W more.

The Ion platform is good,lower power consumption,but too costly (8.5k).

Also, i wanted to re-use old hardware, which otherwise will get wasted.

A single core sempron is a lot faster too. I dont have an Atom, so if some1 could tell us how it performs it would be gr8. I mean can u listen to music and surf the net at the same time on an atom ?

All the best.