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Everything You Need To Know About Apple’s HomePod

On February 9th, there’ll be a new player in the smart speaker market, Apple’s HomePod. How does it stack up

Deslok In the case of a higher power card(a gpu) a full system power measurement would be acceptable however a pcie device like this is low enough power that other factors(disk and cpu activity triggered by...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 23, 2020
MrCalvin I agree measure power-consumption on a PCI socket is whole other story, I would say the only practical way is to measure the whole computer, before and after activating the device, but that should...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 21, 2020
Deslok I unfortunately don't have a way to meter a pcie device directly at this time, that is part of why my answer was 6-10w based on other AQ107 devices i've observed(such as the OWC 10gbaseT adapter which...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020
Deslok That's it's own special rabbit hole really, old 10gbaset switches were upwards of 12w per port, new ones are usually 1.5-4w with some variance on link length(there's a minimum power to simply have an...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020
MrCalvin Don't trust the word of a spec sheet! Especially of a brand of cheap chipset. A bit off-topic I know, but my Kingston KC600 SSD use almost 3 x more power in idle and in read mode than the spec sheet...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020