Re: Mersenne: electrical energy needed to run a LL-Test?

2002-04-27 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Friday 26 April 2002 09:52, Lars Fricke wrote: Hello! I was just curious, how much electrical energy my system here needs to run a LL-Test. Even if you don't let the system run if it is not used otherwise, it seems to be quite a lot. On my P-III 933 (WIN XP), Prime95 needs about 15W

RE: Mersenne: electrical energy needed to run a LL-Test?

2002-04-27 Thread Paul Leyland
From: Brian J. Beesley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... To get a real feel for this value for money question, surely you have to factor in the system depreciation cost i.e. the difference between the purchase and residual values plus the total cost of the power consumed over the working

Re: Mersenne: electrical energy needed to run a LL-Test?

2002-04-27 Thread Robin Stevens
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:06:40PM +, Brian J. Beesley wrote: In terms of P90 CPU hours per kWh, we've got to be looking at P4 Northwood based systems - equipped with minimum peripherals. The main power saving that most people can make is to use an LCD monitor instead of a CRT. Better