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With rising energy costs, a careful examination of your PC's components power consumption becomes more important, especially when looking at TCO (total cost of ownership). Coding Horror has a nice break down of the current list of video cards, what they consume in power, and which is the most performance bang for the energy buck.



Speaking of the cost of energy, if you live in Texas and are using your standard issue energy carrier, you are throwing money away. You are also costing fellow consumers money by not fostering competition between energy carriers. SO GET WITH IT!

Header over to PowerToChoose.org, an electricity price comparison web site setup by the Texas state government, and find a cheaper provider. The effort to switch usually takes no more than signing a piece of a paper. No deposit required.