Five PC Power Myths Debunked

snydeq writes "Turning off PCs during periods of inactivity can save companies between $25 and $75 per PC per year, according to Energy Star, savings that can add up quickly for large organizations. Yet most organizations remain behind the times on PC power management, in large part due to common misperceptions about PC power, writes InfoWorld's Ted Samson, who outlines five PC power myths debunked in a recent report from Forrester, ranging from the energy savings of screen savers, to the energy draw of powering up, to the difficulties of issuing patches to systems in lower-power states."

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[citation needed]

[larry bagina]

[citation needed]

My Screen Saver

[kcdoodle]

I wrote a pretty cool screen saver years ago.
I used x,y,z coordinate equation for a sphere and added extra multipliers, exponents, and divisors, then I change the variables around on each iteration, then draw a wire-frame of the shape made.

I made it so friggin' complicated that I could not reduce it to a set of matrix operations (remember linear algebra?).

No worries, I brute-forced every long-arse calculation and it works great!

Now I use my screen saver as a load tester when overclocking. It really works the heck out of the CPU and GPU. A good screen saver (looks cool), but not very practical.

Re:Not just power issue

[cidhawk]

Right. And the fifteen minutes you spend each day reading /. it totally job related.