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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:53 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> It took some digging around but I found out it is a AMD Phenom 9750 quad |
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>> core. |
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> You might want to hook a Kill-a-watt to that and see how much power it |
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> uses. Those older AMD processors were really inefficient. |
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> One thing I've come to appreciate with anything that runs 24x7 is to |
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> consider the energy bill to run things. That's why the bulk of my |
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> storage is running on ARM SBCs. Those things use almost no power when |
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> idle, while even a modern amd64 system will often use more at idle |
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> than an ARM will at full load. |
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> Most of the newer CPUs are MUCH better in performance per watt as |
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> well. A server that uses just 50W 24x7 costs about $65/yr (and I have |
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> pretty cheap electricity due to a 1yr contract - odds are it costs |
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> quite a bit more for most of this list). That's a fairly significant |
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> amount of money so it can pay to optimize things, especially if you |
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> replace what was a power-hungry performance CPU from 10 years ago with |
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> a lower-end CPU from today that probably has double the performance |
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> for 10% of the power draw. Obviously if you want bleeding edge the |
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> electricity bill won't cover the up-front costs, but lower end CPUs |
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> are very cost-effective and efficient compared to really old systems |
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> that people tend to use for these kinds of projects. |
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My UPS has a power meter thing on it which is pretty close. It shows a |
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little over 100 watts for rig and monitor to when running. Given it is |
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winter time here, I don't mind the extra heat. It's either the puter or |
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a heater. Given the forecast, I'm considering a emerge -e world pretty |
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soon. lol This NAS box won't run 24/7 tho. I'll run it when I update |
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backups then shut it down and maybe even move it to a out building. |
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Once I build a Raspberry thingy, I may have one as a 24/7 NAS box and |
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take some load off my main rig. That I would like to have more |
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efficiency with. That's for later tho. First, I want to build a small |
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one that will fit in my fire safe. Of course, I still want a larger |
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safe so that maybe I can have a 6 bay NAS box. I wish I could find a |
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commercial or bank type safe that is used. If it isn't to heavy. |
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I still remember my old AMD 2500+ single core rig. That thing pulled |
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over 400 watts idle. If I was compiling a lot and all the fans were |
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running plus hard drives were busy, it would pull even more, close to |
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500 watts or something. It's been a while but I remember winters were |
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nice but summers made the A/C run a good bit longer. Thing is, my |
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current rig is much faster, likely 10 times faster, and pulls less than |
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200 watts even if at full power plus I have a LOT more hard drives. It |
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goes to show, you can't measure computer power by what it pulls from the |
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wall. :-) |
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If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd |
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like to have a remote tho. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |