Multimedia :: low energy dsl box

Throttling during the night by means of cron job is probably the next thing I want to try.
Otherwise, I hardly ever use the graphics card since I access the box through ssh. The sheer heat of the graphics chip suggests that it's using up quite a bit of power.
I'm not convinced whether going into text-only mode or activating the screen saver puts the graphics chip to sleep or saves a substantial amount of energy.

just for the record; here's a fine link : saving energy in linux
Where one finds a summary of tips and tricks that should be applicable to DSL.

Hi,

I got myself a low cost CF-based fanless mini-itx computer by

Zonbu

The little box uses between 12 and 19 watts.

Zonbu is a Gentoo based Linux distro that uses about 1.5 GB for the operation system and applications, so 2.5 GB of the CF-card that comes withe the machine are left for data.

The box is powered with a via epia 1.2 GB CPU and comes with 512 MB RAM

I never tried it with DSL, but it does everything that I want to do in the living-room: Browse the web, watch digital photos, listen to music.

After using Zonbu for quite a while, you can find my review here:
Zonbu-Review

Rigas

I've been looking into this sort of thing recently and stumbled upon the following website. Might be of some help to you but it depends on your system really.

http://www.lesswatts.org/

A few links that may be interesting:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/13/hardware_components/
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/howtodiy/solar-pc-live-test/
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007....ered_pc
http://www.zflinux.com/

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