This article is about the mammal. For other uses, see Porcupine (disambiguation) . Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators. The term covers two families of animals, the Old World porcupines and New World porcupines.
An average desktop computer uses between 60 and 300 watts. It is very difficult to know exactly how much computers use on average because there are so many different hardware configurations.
Using the configuration shown below, I was able to determine that my PC consumes approximately 196-210 watts while idling, 240 watts while running a Sisoft Sandra CPU test, 246 watts while playing Unreal Tournament 2004 with a resolution of 800 x 600 with 32-Bit color, and 256 watts with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 / 32-bit color.