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Originally Posted by Christ
Easiest way to build a green PC - Low power monitor, and conservative on the specs. Your daily use PC doesn't need to be a gaming machine with 500GB of HDD space. IF it does, you need to delete some of your pr0n.
OS tuneups are necessary, so get ready to work with software if you're not familiar already. Yes, Windows DOES become completely stupid after about 3 months of regular use. It happens, get over it and learn to fix it.
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I don't think HD space has much to do with it, so much as the NUMBER of drives. I run 3, 1 internal 2 external, and they don't consume a lot of power really. Maybe 20W combined under load? Then again they aren't super-fast drives. I think they're 5400 and 7200 RPM drives. I've got about 830gb of disk space now, and I would reduce my energy consumption right now by replacing my 250 and 500 external drives with a single-disk 1tb unit.
And I figured out a way around Windows breakdowns... Ditch the Windows. All manners of Linux out there, that are actually getting quite user friendly now, and people still use Windows? Bah.
