Quote Originally Posted by aenigma View Post
All this CPU wattage talk reminds me of when I was doing all of this back in '04 and everybody was talking about CPU wattage being over 200 watts, when it was closer to 100 watts. The only thing I can be sure of is that nobody knows what they are talking about, it's all speculation.
Well, not quite.. back to the Q6600, I used to have Abit boards and they could display the current the CPU was drawing. So using the simple P=U*I formula you could easily get a pretty good idea of what your CPU was consuming at any given time.
Right now I am running an i7 920 at 4,4Ghz with 1,52V, HT enabled. Running BOINC it pushes my SS down to -26C evap temp at 21C ambient, which means I am effing close to the 280W barrier.
Probably 250-260W right now.