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

Charles Sliger chaz at bctonline.com
Mon Sep 13 20:04:02 UTC 2004


50 - 100 Watts is probable.
I have a little monitor that you can plug them into that will tell you
exactly.
-chaz
chaz at bctonline.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]
> On Behalf Of Russell Senior
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:26 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] typical power draw for a headless, diskless PC?
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> If I can pull this off, I think we'd probably decommission after a few
> months and give the boxes to Free Geek.
> 
> Secondly, does anyone have an empty van making a round trip to the Bay
> Area in the next few weeks?
> 
> 
> --
> Russell Senior         ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.''
> seniorr at aracnet.com
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