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I'm looking to buy a 'low energy' system for my home webserver. One of the main criteria is how much power such a system consumes while providing enough power to run the apps I would like to run. My current focus goes towards an Atom 230/330 system (Mini-ITX).

I've had a look at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ to see what the performance of these kinds of CPUs is in relation to the other 'normal' CPUs. Hoeever I've not yet been able to find an overview of the power consumption of both Atom and other CPUs.

Does anyone here know of an overview that can help me make a choice?

Thanks.

Niels Basjes

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TDP although actually a measurment of thermal power gives quite a good idea of comparable electrical power consumption at 100% cpu usage. As you can see something like an Atom or mobile version of a CPU uses a LOT less power than a standard CPU.

Bear in mind that with proper desktop cpus the motherboard draws a lot more power than the low power mini-itx motherboards as well.

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