Profiling the Power Usage of a Desktop PC

Posted Dec 18, 2008 5:03 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
Parent article: Profiling the Power Usage of a Desktop PC

Were the DIMMS set to the exact same timings? If not, that might explain the difference. If the Kensington memory allowed the busses to be clocked a little higher, that could cause power consumption to go up dramatically.

Profiling the Power Usage of a Desktop PC

Posted Dec 18, 2008 17:15 UTC (Thu) by cook (subscriber, #4) [Link] (1 responses)

>Were the DIMMS set to the exact same timings?
Prior to the test, the motherboard's BIOS settings were reset to
the factory defaults so the memory settings should have been identical.

Profiling the Power Usage of a Desktop PC

Posted Dec 18, 2008 18:32 UTC (Thu) by knan (subscriber, #3940) [Link]

DIMMs have their own timings in SPD, so factory default (Auto) could very well use different timings between the two modules.