Operating Guidelines
Version 1.10
25.5
21.9
20
13.84
71.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Watts
EPIA M 9 0 0 0
EPIA M E6 0 0 0
EPIA 8 0 0
EPIA 50 0 0
Int el 8 4 5- b ased
M B Pent ium 4
1.7G
Running Office Apps
Lifestyle PC systems will be used most for digital media applications but they will also be able to
be used as fully functional PCs. The comparison above uses CC Winstone 2001 to compare
power consumption while carrying out standard office tasks like word processing, manipulating
spreadsheets and web browsing. In this comparison, the fanless VIA EPIA ME6000 mainboard
uses less than 1/3 of the power used by the reference platform. It is interesting to note that the
fanless VIA EPIA5000 uses less than 1/5 of the power used by the reference platform.
19.1
18.1
14.3
11.3
25.8
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Watts
EP IA M 90 00 E P IA M E 6 00 0
EP IA 80 0
E P IA 5 00 0
Inte l 8 45 -
ba se d M B
P e ntium 4
1.7G
Running Network Apps
The power consumption comparison for network applications was run while
transferring large data files over a standard 10 Base T network. Here again the
power consumption of the Intel reference platform is considerably more than that of
the VIA EPIA series of Mini-ITX mainboards with the VIA EPIA5000 drawing less than
half of the power of the reference platform.
