[PLUG] typical power draw for a headless, diskless PC?

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Wed Aug 25 10:55:03 UTC 2004


On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:26:26PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> 
> There is a lot of 52 last generation PC's (Pentium II and IIIs, mostly
> 400 MHz Pentium IIs), many of which are dual proc boxes, for sale on
> EBay.  I am considering buying them to run as a 30.7 GHz compute farm
> in my basement for a few months.  As part of the consideration, I need
> to think about powering them.  They are headless, and I'd probably
> pull the hard disks and netboot them.  How much power should I expect
> one of these boxes to draw?  Keith Lofstrom?  Anybody?

70-100W, I think.

> Secondly, does anyone have an empty van making a round trip to the Bay
> Area in the next few weeks?

Dude!  Road trip!

Currently buying a pickup,
  Aaron




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