On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:34:13AM +0100, mbm wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2008 18:18:48 +0100 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I /think/ that the cpu in these machines uses a totally insane amount of leccy. You'd probably save more by buying a better machine and using less leccy in the space of a year over what you'd save on the purchase price.
See http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm.
Pentium D 925 not listed, but they aren't the most energy efficient of the intel range (a core 2 duo draws around 6-70 watts). Even so, a power differential of 70 watts over a year of 24x7 running adds probably about 80-90 UKP
Well on our tariffs it's only about £43 per year. Our peak time electricity is currently 8.81 pence per unit and off peak is 3.9 pence which makes close to 12p per day for 0.07kw. That's £43.80 per year.
Not to be ignored but not 80-90 UKP either.