<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 11/12/2010, at 8:56 AM, Tony King wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hi Darryl<br>
<br>I run a few computers here, most resurrected from garage sales and
other peoples cast offs. Most seem to have a 300 to 400 watt power
consumption not counting the monitors. I would suspect however that
this saves more global energy by recycling than being able to buy
lots of new low power systems, not to say I wouldn't buy them if I
could afford it . Better if the energy was saved at my end but you
have to be realistic about energy consumption globally.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Stupid question perhaps, but are you sure they're actually *consuming* that 300-400 watt? or are you just going by their PSU? Back when I was working for a colo centre we used to figure 150W for a normal server (P3/Celeron, 1HDD), and 300W for a decent server (P4/xeon, 3 HDD's).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>DG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</div><div><br></div></span></div></div></body></html>