Measure CPU Watts with a Multimeter
I’m really into measuring things.
Here is a video of me measuring power consumption of an Ivy Bridge Core-i5 and a Xeon 1245 V2 (roughly equivalent to Core-i7 3770)
Similar Posts
One water block per mining rig?
Being the PC cooling freak that I am, I totally had to play with this. Namely – cooling a set of crypto-mining GPUs. The plan: shape a system of copper pipes into a single heat sink unit, providing 1x water input, 1x water output and multiple GPU interface surfaces.The result was the following module that can…
HilfePC.de
Aaalrighty, let’s try and make some money out of this… Been fixing friends’ computers, donating laptops, DIYing coolings… Now I got this website – aiming at offering remote computer support. Like, share and subscribe! 😉 www.hilfepc.de
Baking HD 4870
Another go at baking a broken GPU. This time it seems that I finally overdid it And it looks like it… Yummy smelly soldering flux, anyone? Model: Radeon HD 4870 / Sapphire HD4870 512MB (the red one) Price: 5,99 EUR incl. shipping (ebay.de) Symptom: Artifacts, hardware not properly detected Ye Olde Artefacts. Cool mouse cursor…
How (not) to cool a video card
Note: I really don’t like pointing fingers at people about how they did something wrong. This was however too perfect a textbook case to pass by 🙂 Radeon R9 270 with a thermal pad. Priceless. So, a few days ago I got a used Radeon R9 270 from Ebay . The card was sold as…
The 19V-ish DIY powerbank
Ever wished yourself a power bank for your (non USB-C) laptop? I did lately, though I can’t complain with the 7200 MAh battery of my Fujitsu Lifebook s792. First I looked up some power bank cases like this, as well as some DIY charge balancing boards. These look like a pretty nice option for use…
Chromium vs. CPU
Lately noticed my laptop fan laboring steadily when Chromium is open. Did some comparison, it seems that the start page (with Google on it) consumes about 4 threads each 35% CPU time…Pretty much the same as if watching a 720p YouTube video. Observed a very similar problem with Opera (again based on Chromium for what…
Interesting! Im looking into buying multimeters. I preferred to get in touch with Fluke Philippines sellers.
Thanks for sharing a nice post with us here. Your post is useful to me for electrical tagging. I am looking exactly this. To be continue.