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From: bill@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (William S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Power Supply Calculation:
Message-ID: <3200@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 89 03:45:09 GMT
References: <6566@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <29060@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (William S. Smith)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <29060@cornell.UUCP> jrr@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Jim Russell) writes:
>Does anyone know what a typical PC actually consumes?

I just received a catalog from Crutchfield Personal Office with which I have
no connection, neither am I able to vouch for the reliability of their data.
On page 4 of their Summer/Fall 1989 catalog there is a nice color chart
giving approximate power requirements for various components of a PC.  Their
data is:
 
	     Motherboard                     35 W
	     Keyboard                         2
	     Floppy drive spinning           10
	     Floppy disk idle                 5
	     Hard Disk - 40 Meg              15
	     IO Card                          4
	     Modem                            4
	     Floppy/Hard Disk Controller      8
	     EGA video card                   5
	     Memory extension (2 Megabyte)   20
	     Tape backup w/controller        15

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