Playstation 3 uses five times more power than your fridge...

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By Henning Molbaek
FIRST ONLINE Jul 7, 2008

Playstation 3 uses almost five times more power than a energy friendly fridge... Oh, and that is in standby mode. Research from Australia finds other power hungry consumer electronics.

Coming in second is the XBOX 360 and third are plasma screens.

So, with oil and energy costing the same as gold (well, almost...) it might be a good idea to turn the power completely off when not using these devises in a longer period.

Source: HCC Magazine.

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Member since:
July 2006

Wow. Incredible for such small devices but I guess with all the computing power they both have (PS3 and XBOX 360) it kinda makes sense.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Member since:
March 2002

Yeah, but does it have a freezer compartment? Or a vegetable keeper? Ha! I'll keep the old fridge.

John

Monday, July 7, 2008

ReaggieP

Member since:
January 2008

Geeze it must be that Toshiba Cell Spurs Engine hard at work!

Monday, July 7, 2008

wolvinator

Member since:
January 2008

Well, xbox 360 is starting production of the third revision (third motherboard with lower power consumption chips) which should cut down significantly on the power usage. It's called the Jasper I believe. I think someone here mentioned this before. August is the start date for that production so if you havn't gotten one yet and want to...wait a bit longer, lol.

Monday, July 7, 2008

rangoonth

Member since:
February 2008

Yeah I brought up info about the Jasper motherboard when a pricedrop was mentioned. The old 360's consumed alot of power.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Member since:
July 2006

Have you seen the massive brick the 360's have attached to their powercords? That thing alone looks like a small generator.

Monday, July 7, 2008

kucoloco

Member since:
September 2007

keep in mind the fridge is on 24/7 .. 365days/yr

i game, 2-3 hrs a day, about 3 days a week. some weeks i dont play at all, im sure some game doble what i do, but then again they rest, or get grounded. lol so fridge is always on!

Monday, July 7, 2008

richiro33

Member since:
December 2007

Fridges dont use as much power as you would think.

Also my ps3 is like at least 8 times as fun as my fridge so I think its a good deal.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Member since:
July 2006

Don't forget that it states this energy consumption is when the game consoles are in standby mode. I'm guessing when you play a game or watch a movie/video the consumption goes up a lot higher.

Monday, July 7, 2008