Benchmarks: Power Consumption
If you do decide to invest in a micro PC, do pick up a watt meter as well. It's worth it just to admire how little power the systems use when idle.
Though, the under-load reading isn't anywhere near as comfortable. By employing a 65W desktop part, the Brix Pro draws almost 80 watts while transcoding a video clip.
We see similar power-draw readings when gaming, and as you might imagine, this presents a problem: a system chewing through this amount of power has to be producing its fair share of heat...
