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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler
> 
> Then I went off looking for some CPU benchmarking tools so that I could
> run all cores at once thus giving me an idea of how much power the
> system uses etc.

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null &
Repeat 8 times.
If it's a windows system, just write an infinite loop one-line script in python 
or something.

I don't have any good way to max out the GPU though.

I normally measure (I also use kill-a-watt) something like 60 or 70 W idle, 
which accounts for 90% of the time, and usually what matters the most if 
calculating energy costs.  65W * 24h = 1.56 KWh per day, and at $0.17 per KWh 
and 30.4 days per month, $8 or so per month.

Idle power is what counts the most toward energy costs.  Max power is what you 
size your UPS on.
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