S3 Standby State Done Right

For Earth Day, Cameron Butterfield has written in with a pointer to his article on how to get your Windows PC into S3 sleep, and why you want to. It covers the question of how to take advantage of this extremely low-power mode even when your machine is an "always on" file server, remote desktop, or VNC server.

My weeks only have 7 days in them.

[QuietLagoon]

From the article: I calculated (24 hours per day) * 30 days a week = 720 hours

Does that mean my PC costs one-quarter of what he calculates?

Re:And Linux?

[Asztal_]

You realise that would be finished in 15 seconds and then you could put it to sleep, right?

Re:FreeBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Guys! You found each other!

Shouldn't you guys exchange phone numbers or something?

What an opening

[LordSnooty]

Because of increasing awareness in the general public about energy conservation, the ability to utilize low power states on desktop PCs is incredibly underdocumented and widely unused.

The opening sentence fails to compile in my logic parser - there is little documentation because of increasing awareness? Better would have been: "Because of increasing awareness in the general public about energy conservation, people want to know more about the ability to utilize low power states on desktop PCs. What they're finding is that it's incredibly underdocumented and widely unused." Oh, and "underdocumented" doesn't appear to be a word.

Welcome to the exciting new world of UGC.

Re:And Linux?

[BillGatesLoveChild]

> what are the options to set up a Linux system to reduce power usage and fan noise when idle?

Disconnect those pesky cooling fans. They just make a lot noise and suck up power. Truth is, your PC will run fine without them. It's just a scam by equipment manufacturers to make a few extra bucks out of you. I've been running with them removed for years, no problems.

regards
Scott E. Brown
NOAA Antarctic Station

Re:And Linux?

[Sigma 7]

Disconnect those pesky cooling fans. They just make a lot noise and suck up power. Truth is, your PC will run fine without them.

"You've got a hole in your mainboard. [google.com]"

On a more serious note, cooling fans are recommended as they help keep the CPU cool. PC case fans are considered optional, but can be used if your CPU is reporting temperatures that are considered higher than what they should be (which may actually be ambient heat from the power supply.)

When referring to laptops or notebooks, it depends on the model. While my notebook is at a normal temperature most of the time, I have been running a few 100% CPU tasks which does heat up the notebook. As a result, I had to purchase an external cooling fan so that I wouldn't burn my fingers on the keyboard/touchpad as much.

Re:My weeks only have 7 days in them.

[flyingfsck]

It means that he is a consultant and bills per hour and that is what he bills per week...

Re:And Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

"regards
Scott E. Brown
NOAA Antarctic Station"

Foolboy, get the joke, would you?