RE: Electricity Bill

["Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>]

>
> My server has a 150W PSU, so that's the most it'll ever
> consume.  So over a year, it can only ever consume 0.15x8760
> =3D 1314kwh.  That works out at =A352.56 at 4p/kwh, to =A378.84 a= t
> 6p/kwh which is what my electricity runs at. That's at full
> tilt too!  The processor is actually rated at under 10W at
> full tilt, so if I removed all the extraneous pieces, such as
> extra HDDs, CD-RW, CD-ROM, etc. I could probably save half
> that.  Bearing in mind that my machine is idle most of the
> time, I doubt it costs more than =A350/year.
>
> If I were to base the same calculations on my 250w PSU in the
> Athlon 600, things would be a lot different (=A387.60 -
> =A3131.40).  There's a reason my main server is a P200!

Mine is a 1.5 G with a 350w psu its atcualy using 518 w, two reasons the PSU's are usualy quoted as power output, not input, the input will me
more and in my rack there is a 240v fan to cool the hard disk array

John

http://www.automatedhome.co.uk 
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