My SWAG is 70watts.

Fans that sound that bad should be checked out - maybe it has
some dust buildup?

George


Victor Odhner wrote:
> 
> I haven't looked at "howstuffworks" yet, but ...
> My Athlon is running with three hard disks and
> a 250 W power supply.  The CPU fan sounds like
> a leaf blower, 24x7.  I wonder what all that draws?
> 
> George Toft wrote:
> 
> > http://www.howstuffworks.com/power-supply3.htm
> > says a 300 Mhz Celeron Motherboard consumes 18 watts, and
> > a PCI card takes 5 watts, so that means your dual NIC
> > firewall will consume under 30 watts, or $1.94/month.
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