Green is the New Gold - Monitors
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I’m guessing that many people have LCD monitors attached to their computer, especially in a business environment. If not, you probably have one of those desk killing CRT monitors. If it’s not Energy Star certified, then a brand new LCD might end up saving your company money.
Energy Star compliant monitors save a person over $115 throughout the life of a monitor on average. I’m guessing this will dramatically increase if you are in an office environment and are on the computer eight hours a day. There are some CRT monitors that are Energy Star certified, but for the most part, all LCD monitors are Energy Star compliant. That should make shopping for a new monitor easier.
If LCD monitors aren’t green enough for you, look for OLED monitors to be coming out later this year. Sony showed off some OLED TVs this year at CES. These are not only going to consume less power, but will also have flexibility.
Green Overclockers?
Overclockers do not know the meaning of energy efficient. When we throw two volts into a CPU and 2.5 volts into the memory, we hardly expect to be anywhere near energy efficient. Heck, the people at Energy Star probably cry when they see the power we drain simply from running our computers.
Well, they may have a reason to dry their teary eyes. Asus is promoting some energy saving technology that will be in their next round of motherboards. They are calling this new technology the ASUS EPU, Energy Processing Unit. Here is a little excerpt from ASUS’s website about this new technology:
The ASUS EPU utilizes innovative technology to digitally monitor and tune the CPU power supply with improved VR responses in heavy or light loadings. It automatically provides power for higher performance or improves efficiency by 50% when the PC is running low intensity applications. Working together with AI Gear 3+, this can help you attain the best possible power efficiency and energy savings up to 80.23% to help save the environment
It should be interesting to see this technology at work and see how well it does in the real world. Another interesting note is that on ASUS’s site, they say that the EPU helps grow 17,285,833 trees for the earth. So somehow saving energy on your motherboard will transform into over 17 million trees. I’m still trying to figure out how they can get away with saying this, but I’m sure some people in their marketing and legal departments teamed up and figured out a way an EPU can grow trees.
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