<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 3, 2007 5:05 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><p>Demonstrating category creep here,<br>let me just comment that resistive heating<br>is an expensive way to heat your room<br><br>And the flip side is A/C, which simply has<br>to remove the heat. Overall this is a bad
<br>strategy - better to get the dual core someone<br>else suggested....<br><br>You might get a few points extra in some<br>global warming class that way, or maybe<br>even an award for being so environmentally<br>friendly. You just keep on winning..
<br><br> -Bob<br><br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote"> </blockquote><br>
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</a><br></blockquote></p><DEFANGED_div><br><br>Eh, it was just a bad joke about using it as a heater....<br><br>I did some looking at power consumption - and its pretty crazy where the Pentium D's really sit.....<br><br>Pentium D 940
3.2 GHZ 130 Watts<br>P4 Mobile 2.0GHZ 21 Watts<br>Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHZ 65 Watts<br>Core 2 Quad 3.0GHZ 130 Watts<br>AMD X2 5400+ 89 Watts<br>Turion X2
2.0 GHZ 35 Watts<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation</a><br><br>Dont video cards these days draw upwards of a couple hundred watts by themselves?
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