Originally Posted by cwispy

Its simple, when your running folding, the cpu never goes to go to idle state. As soon as your not using the system, folding takes all the cpu it can take and the dissipation of the system peaks. I can guarantee that a high end system that is doing nothing at all, not folding, not seti@home, is only going to be drawing around 45 to 60W max and when its cpu is working at 100% it will be drawing ~200W or even more depending on the system specs as per what joey posted.



What the? Have you rewritten ohms law and I didn't hear about it??? This has to be the funniest statement that I think I have read this year. I am yet to see a switchmode psu such as a ATX psu dissipating its rated output of say 400W with no load, I wonder where it all goes too...