[Ossiostborn]

@ Ossiostborn, yes I'm curious aswell... maybe the HDD I use is kind, it's a Samsung Spinpoint

It seems like with the new T3CH Release (8103) new changes have been introduced which weren't integrated in the last T3CH version yet (but in your self-compiled). So I had another decrease with the new version! Great!

Here are my new measurings:

XBMC without HLT idle (rev7731-T3CH): 69W
XBMC without HLT playing music (rev7731-T3CH): 69W

XMBC with HLT enabled idle (rev8014-T3CH): 63W
XMBC with HLT enabled playing music (rev8014-T3CH): 62-64W

XMBC with HLT enabled idle (rev8103-T3CH): 56W
XMBC with HLT enabled playing music (rev8103-T3CH): 57-60W

I love XBMC !
Alex

[pike]

cool, I forgot to point out that I used a SVN (but I did say which date I used)

It's GREEN days

I'm hoping I will convince a dev to make a GREEN screensaver, a screensaver that hopefully can sleep the GPU (today the Black screensaver just shows a black image ontop of the UI), but this will require some changes to the screensaver API.

[sCAPe]

Yeah, a screensaver which doesn't need much resources and thus doesn't heat up cpu/gpu/hdd would be absolutely awesome!

[Ossiostborn]

I'm hoping I will convince a dev to make a GREEN screensaver, a screensaver that hopefully can sleep the GPU (today the Black screensaver just shows a black image ontop of the UI), but this will require some changes to the screensaver API.

Such an "Greensaver" would be really nice .

@paulmedynski: Why don't you set your fan to 10% manually? But you're right, an automatic fan control combined with HDD and GPU, too, would be perfect...

Alex

[timdog82001]

I'd been having some cooling issues lately due to something i hadn't gotten around to fixing, so my cpu temps were really high, around 160F alot of the time, but now they've plummeted to about 105...friggin amazing

[b4a4b5.5]

Hello,

I'd like to install this patch but I don't know how. I can't find any guides or instructions for patch install. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[ultrabrutal]

Just update a recent SVN build. It's in there. No need to do any patching yourself

[b4a4b5.5]

yeah, no idea how to do that

[tvdb-scott]

Just wait until the next t3ch release then, or whatever you use when you upgrade your t3ch release. If you're still unsure, go read the documentation... it's all in there.

[blakholephysics]

Would it be possible to just shut off the gpu?

What would the end result be on the tv?

[El Piranna]

Would it be possible to just shut off the gpu?

What would the end result be on the tv?

I'm not sure, but i think that if this would be posible only you get a frezze image since the RamDAC, who is the real responsable to send the data to your TV/Monitor, is still working... Yes, it would be a good idea if possible, but i think is not