Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:53 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It took some digging around but I found out it is a AMD Phenom 9750 quad >> core. > You might want to hook a Kill-a-watt to that and see how much power it > uses. Those older AMD processors were really inefficient. > > One thing I've come to appreciate with anything that runs 24x7 is to > consider the energy bill to run things. That's why the bulk of my > storage is running on ARM SBCs. Those things use almost no power when > idle, while even a modern amd64 system will often use more at idle > than an ARM will at full load. > > Most of the newer CPUs are MUCH better in performance per watt as > well. A server that uses just 50W 24x7 costs about $65/yr (and I have > pretty cheap electricity due to a 1yr contract - odds are it costs > quite a bit more for most of this list). That's a fairly significant > amount of money so it can pay to optimize things, especially if you > replace what was a power-hungry performance CPU from 10 years ago with > a lower-end CPU from today that probably has double the performance > for 10% of the power draw. Obviously if you want bleeding edge the > electricity bill won't cover the up-front costs, but lower end CPUs > are very cost-effective and efficient compared to really old systems > that people tend to use for these kinds of projects. >
My UPS has a power meter thing on it which is pretty close. It shows a little over 100 watts for rig and monitor to when running. Given it is winter time here, I don't mind the extra heat. It's either the puter or a heater. Given the forecast, I'm considering a emerge -e world pretty soon. lol This NAS box won't run 24/7 tho. I'll run it when I update backups then shut it down and maybe even move it to a out building. Once I build a Raspberry thingy, I may have one as a 24/7 NAS box and take some load off my main rig. That I would like to have more efficiency with. That's for later tho. First, I want to build a small one that will fit in my fire safe. Of course, I still want a larger safe so that maybe I can have a 6 bay NAS box. I wish I could find a commercial or bank type safe that is used. If it isn't to heavy. I still remember my old AMD 2500+ single core rig. That thing pulled over 400 watts idle. If I was compiling a lot and all the fans were running plus hard drives were busy, it would pull even more, close to 500 watts or something. It's been a while but I remember winters were nice but summers made the A/C run a good bit longer. Thing is, my current rig is much faster, likely 10 times faster, and pulls less than 200 watts even if at full power plus I have a LOT more hard drives. It goes to show, you can't measure computer power by what it pulls from the wall. :-) If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd like to have a remote tho. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
