Originally Posted By: drakino
Not sure about disks spun down and such, but my Mac Pro 2008 (dual quad, all 8 memory slots filled, 4 hard drives, 2 video cards) is using 180 watts. When fully loaded (video and CPU) it goes a bit above 300.

That's a heck of a lot of power consumption. VERY high.
Are you sure about those figures?

A typical quad-core machine here with a few drives installed idles at under 100W.

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