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cr0sh on June 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The charm of buying old workstation hardware on th...

Unless you were cranking everything to the max 24/7 (like maxing out your GPU while reading/writing to a database while doing a bunch of floating point calcs for something?), it probably idled at around 100 watts. Not great, but not something I'd worry about.

cbsks on June 5, 2019 [–]

Like running SETI@home? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I certainly had that running 24/7 when I was in high school.

organsnyder on June 5, 2019 | [–]

If it makes you feel better, those older machines probably didn't have much in the way of power management to throttle back at idle.

dillonmckay on June 5, 2019 | | [–]

What?

Mine has a ‘Turbo’ button!

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