Power consumed by household appliances and computers - ZX Spectrum, PC, laptops

Power consumed by household appliances and computers
 by AmoNik
 (Measurements collected over many years)

ZX Spectrum+ 128K
- only 2.3 W power supply 
- all together 13.6 W 

Computer Scorpion ZS 256 Turbo+ in ATX case:
- standby 1 W 
- operation 22.7 W 

Scorpio GMX - 19.8 W

Pentagon 102ХSL - 21 W

Amiga 500 - 15.7 W

Amiga 1200 with accelerator Blizzard 68030@50
- 3D 25 W 
- 2D 24 W 

Computer 48bDXCh-120 - 35 W

Computer Pentium 233 MMX - 47 W

Computer AMD C60
- standby 1.8 W 
- OS loading 26.5 W 
- operation less than 28 W 

Computer Pentium 3S - 1266/ Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon 9600 Pro)/
2xHDD
- standby 4.4 W- desktop 115.8 W (84.9 W) 
- Quake III - 126.9 W (84.9 W) 
- maximum 144 W 

Computer Pentium 4 3400 MHz
- standby 3.4 W 
- Windows running - 129.4 W 
- stress test 245 W 
- ATI Tools Benchmark - 315 W 
- in game 262 W 

Computer core i7
- standby 0.6 W 
- Windows 7 running - 80 W 
- performance test - 346 W 
- in the game Battlefield 3 - 280 W 
- stress test - 288 W 

Laptop Toshiba Satellite 3ЗOCDT with CompactFlash:
- 1.7 W power supply 
- standby 2.9 W 
- MS-DOS - 20.2 W 
- copying from FDD - 21.5 W 
- copying from CD - 23.3 W 
- emulator REALSPECTRUM - 19.5 W 
- Z8OStealth emulator - 20.9 W 

Playstation 1 (old model)
- standby mode 1.2 W 
- included without 5.4 W disk 
- game running 6.5-9.1 W 

Playstation 1 (new model)
- standby mode 0.8 W 
- included without disk 5.0 W 
- game running 7.5-8.8 W 

Playstation 2 model 39xxx
- standby 1.1 W 
- in the menu 31.9 W 
- game 45 W 

Playstation 2 model 50008
- standby mode 3.2 W 
- in the menu 22.6 W 
- ingame 35 W 

XBOX 360
- standby 1.7 W 
- in the menu 87 W 
- in game 92 W 

Nintendo Wii with DVD drive emulator
- standby 1.3 W 
- menu 13.4 W 
- game from SD card 12.7 W 

The same Nintendo Wii, without a DVD emulator, but with a hard drive for
USB:
- in standby mode 1.4 W 
- included in the menu 14.8 W 
- SNES emulator - 13.5 W 
- playing New Super Mario Brothers in Wii mode - 15.9 W 
- Need For Speed Underground game in Gamecube mode - 15.7 W 

Record player Radiotekhnika Melody 103 Stereo - 17 W

CD player Technics
- standby 2.0 W 
- just turned on 5.3 W 
- disc playback 6.8 W 

Music center AIWA
- standby mode 6.1 W 
- radio 13.1 W 
- Line In - 10.3 W 

Music center Pioneer
- standby 9.8 W 
- radio 21 W 
- cassette 23.8 W 
- CD player - 25.4 W 

Radio Panasonic
- standby mode 1.8 W 
- included 6.4 W 
- tape recorder 7.6 W (loud) 
- CD - 7.6 W(loud) 
- radio 6.4 W (loud) 

Pioneer sound amplifier - 23.1 W at a comfortable volume level

Multimedia speakers Tzunami - 2.4 W

SVEN multimedia speakers:
- standby 0 W 
- enabled with default settings 19.7 W 
- MUTE mode - 19.1 W 

VCR SAMSUNG
- sleep 6.4 W 
- included 6.4 W 
- viewing 16.1 W 
- cassette rewind 19.4 W 

VCR SONY SLV-E1bOEE:
- standby 4.1 W 
- on 13.4 W 
- playback 16.9 W 
- rewind 18.2 W 

DVD Player Pioneer
- in standby mode 1.4 W 
- in operating mode (disc search) 8.4 W 
- in operating mode (DVD-Video playback) 6.8 W 

CRT monitor Philips CM 8833-II
- without signal 47.4-49.8 W 
- bright background 58.5 W 
- dynamics 48 W 

Samsung LCD monitor 17 inches
- standby 1.4 W 
- in operation (maximum) 26 W 

TV SAMSUNG CRT 54 cm
- in standby mode approximately 8 W 
- in operating mode 45-65 W depending onimage brightness 

SONY LCD TV 20 inches
- off 0.6 W 
- standby 14.4 W 
- operation 40.3 W maximum 

Toshiba LCD TV 40 inches
- standby 0 W 
- TV - 63.6-147.4 W 

Halogen spotlight - 140 W

Wi-Fi access point DLink - 4.1-4.9 W

Trendnet switch - 6.8 W

Asus router - 7.8 W

Router (it is not specified which one, but apparently TP-LINK WR-10ЧЗND) - 4.7 W

Firewall
- no load 8.5 W 
- one computer on a 9.4 W network 

Epson FX 890 matrix printer
- standby 3.9-14.5 W 
- printing 57.3 W 

Printer Star LC 20 matrix
- standby 7.7 W 
- printing 30.7 W 

NEC P5200 matrix printer
- standby 18.9 W 
- printing 56.3 W 

Samsung typewriter
- enabled 2.9 W 
- prints 31.9 W 

Scart Switcher Philips - 2.8-2.9 W

AVU HF Pascal-2250
- standby mode 2.7 W 
- off hook 3.8 W 

Siemens Gigaset phone (Radio)
- off-hook 1.2 W 
- the handset charges at 2.4 W 

Charger JVC - 1.5 W

Charger LaCrosse
- charges 4 batteries with a current of 200 mA - 3.6 W 
- charges 4 batteries with a current of 700 mA - 10.9 W 

Refrigerator
- standby 2.1 W 
- 1st camera 72-88 W 
- 2nd camera 62-67 W 
- lighting 49.8 W 

Philips electric shaver - 2 W

Toaster - 770-791 W

Polisher - 132 W

Shoe dryer mice 21.3 - 12 W

Heating pad - 27 W

Table fan
- first speed 9.4 W 
- second speed 14.9 W 

Floor fan
- first speed 37.0-37.9 W 
- second speed 40.0-40.8W 
- third speed 40.4 W 
- backlight 0 W 

Vacuum cleaner Samsung - 980-1010 W

Vacuum cleaner Karcher (without water) - 1225 W

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