WHS + Power Usage

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Have a bunch of spare parts lying around and am considering building a WHS server rather than a NAS for backup purposes, as it looks to be cheaper and more fault tolerant. I read the Release Documentation for PP1, specifically the part about how Server Balanced Process Power and Performance is the default processor power management scheme. I wanted to know how well this works with AMD's Cool n' Quiet mode. The relevant parts are:

Athlon 64 4000+ (Skt. 939, single-core, 89W TDP)
ASUS A8V-X (thought it was broken, turns out it wasn't, yay!)
NSK4480 w/ Earthwatts 380W

For people running WHS servers now, what's the average power use they're eating for you? I realize a NAS will always win in portability and power use, but I'm thinking if I can keep this to around 100W or less it'll be worth it.
 
I'm not sure my exact power usage, but I know it's pretty low. I have cool-n-quiet enabled with no problems so far.
 
My box with 5 drives is ~110W from the wall. Considering how shitty the PSU is..I could probably get that sub 100 easily with a 80% PSU.
 
newer 1 core AMD Sempron
2.5 and 3.5"hdd
1stick of ram
and PicoPSU
~30W if I recall correctly

I think it now uses around 50W, cause it is on UPS and not downclocked...
:cool:
 
AMD 4600+ 65W
2 GB DDR2 800
RAID5 = 5 x 1TB Hitachi
RAID1 = 2 x 160GB Westerns
3 Fans
Thermaltake 430W PSU
~115 W from my UPS
 
Q6600, 4x1g, 4x750 Samsung Spinpoint drives, 2*80g 2.5" boot drives, dual gigE card, 8 port sata card, 140 watts from the wall according to a Kill-A-Watt.
 
Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H with an AMD X2 4850e with 3 GB's of DDR2 memory and 3 1TB GP drives and 2x 80mm fans - all running off an oldish Corsair PSU is pulling 50-60 Watts from the wall.
 
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