By Patrick & Cary

Benchmarking and load testing the PC. Power Consumption of the 12V PC.

• Abit Core2Duo-Compact Media Desktop-High performance

• Via MM 3500 Integrated Platform Motherboard-Low energy consumption(one of the lowest on the market) - Energy to performance trade off

CPU tests Mathematical operations, compression, encryption, SSE, 3DNow! instructions and more

2D graphics tests Drawing lines, bitmaps, fonts, text, and GUI elements

3D graphics tests Simple to complex DirectX 3D graphics and animationsDisk tests Reading, writing and seeking within disk files

Memory tests Allocating and accessing memory speed and efficiency

Multimetre- Used to measure the power output

of the two power sources.

Wattmetre- Used to measure the consumption of the monitor and the two types of PCs

State VIA VM 3500 PC Abit Core2duoOff 1.28 w 2wIdle(Average) 19.2w 40.1wPeak 25.86 w 59.3w

Test Abit Core2Duo Via MM 35002D 42.8 18.23D 20.4 5CPU 264.7 46.5HardDisc 71.6 27.6Memory 73.5 28.8

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Teamwork is a important factor of Project Management. We worked together in various groups of 2 to get the project off the go. From Putting the Solar Panel up, Wiring & Building the customised PC’s.