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Cox Orange

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Jan 1, 2010
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Hello,

after using my Sonnet Dual 1,8GHz (7447) now for a year, I did plug it in a "Wattmeter" and I was a bit surprised.

While the Apple G4 500GHz single gave an output of 50W (iMac G4 DV 90-110W, interestingly), the Sonnet gave me 70W, when using mpegstreamclip to convert a video. But after some time (the process had allready been in progress for a while) it raised to 145W, though the processor load did not rise.

Is this normal (and mpegstreamclip just did harder work at this point, should have seen this in the processor load % I guess)?

Kind Regards.
 
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