Posts by Back to school 3 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2012
Perphaps it is also proprietory why this card with ~350W power limit will barely touch 250W with the limit sliders maxed in any of the OC software, or why all the photos and websites show 10 power stages when you actually get 9 same as the FE.
Basically the same spec as the FE but with an off the shelf water block and ASUS tax.
I have a 1.0T focus, typically get low 40's running around town 2-3 mile journeys and up to 50 on an A road run. It's not supposed to be super economical like the 800kg NA micro cars, it's supposed to be more economical than the 1.6NA it replaces ... and in that it succeeds.
As for bumpers .. my other car is an elderly but strong diesel passat, it takes about 3 minutes to remove the bumper, hardly the end of the world, when a bulb went a few years back I replaced them all while the bumper was off. Fairly trivial if you can use a screw driver.
"Your i3 running full windows with all those drives will draw hundreds of watts, these devices are typically draw 25-50.
So lets say yours runs 300w, 24/7 all year. That's 2682 Kwh."
I have a download box using a sandy bridge dual core celeron G530, DC - DC power supply and a SSD. The system uses 17W from the wall socket idle running XP Pro and peaks at around 40w with 100% CPU load. This is a standard 65W chip with comparable idle consumption to an I3.
The base power draw of the system is therefore 17W + drives which is the ball park for these NAS units.
If you need big storage, buying multiple NAS units isn't a great option.
In my view this are ok as an always on basic device with a couple of drives providing the base unit costs around £100.
£3-500 for what's basically a simple cpu board and a box for drives is crazy.
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