Xbox 360: BEWARE, I HUNGER!!!

Cnet report 'apparently, all the jokes made about the Xbox 360's massive power brick are well deserved. After some experimenting with the 360 and other equipment, we've discovered an interesting fact about Microsoft's next-gen console: it's obscenely power hungry.'

We tested the 'box using Extech's MA200 power meter, which gives real-time power consumption results. It turns out that the Xbox 360 draws about 160 watts of power, over twice as much as the original Xbox, which draws 74 watts, and the PlayStation 2, which draws about 50. In fact, the great white beast chomps down more electricity than almost every piece of living room electronics we tested, including the JVC RX-D702 A/V receiver, the Denon DVD-3910 DVD player, and a DirecTV HD TiVo. The only pieces of A/V gear that draw more power than the 360 are big-screen high-definition TVs.

Playing Xbox 360 for an average of four hours a day will eat up about 233 kilowatt-hours per year. Depending on where you live, that's an annual bill of $10 to $35 for the Xbox 360 alone. Of course, the Xbox 360 isn't as big a power hog as a refrigerator or an oven, but it uses more than double the electricity of any other game console on the market. The Xbox 360 may be twice as pretty as its predecessor, but it's also twice as hungry.

News Source: Cnet.com

and twice as hot in some cases....












allegedly.

i think the people that did the esting and all that dont know that the 360 is actualy a very powerful machine first of all its more powerful that your average home pc what do they expect? its pretty dumb to think about power consumption when it does soo much it even have usb and everything. well i really dont care its more powerfull than my computer and ive spent like 1,700 on my pc alone and it has 680 watt power supply soo i really dont care about how much power it uses if you can pay it thats good its not really much it all depends on the use too well i dunno thats what i think

op above you make a very valid point. I don't think much people can objectify to that. being said now I'm thinkin that the power supply problem should have been expected instead of a shock. look at how much fans you got in your current pc . A lot of peoples pc's right now have less benchmark power and 3 times the ammounts of fans.

well lets see here assumeing they mean before the power brick at 120v thats bout what, 1.34amps thats slightley more than my mini frige

I'll correct myself. It should have been expected by "us" the generall smarter people when it comes to computers and electronics in general. Most people I know can barely plug in their pc/gaming system let alone operate it.