I had similar thoughts a while back. doesn't always work out the way you
think. (e.g. toyota prius, while a politically and technologically
needed car, actually saves no energy over it's lifespan due to the
enormous amount of front end manufacturing cost and material used).
Here's what I did.
took single board athlon desktop. Underclocked it as low as the FSB
would go on motherboard, and lowered the CPU and ram voltages to near
minimum. Stuck in a laptop hard drive (3.5-2.5 adapter about $5) and an
80% efficient small as heck power supply with 3 intel nic cards in the
PCI slots.
cut power consumption by 1/2 over same setup with original PS running
full speed. Still doesn't break a sweat at 20Mbps symmetrical and 6k
connections..
Might try the same. pull CPU number 2, lower the FSB and so on. Big diff
is the power supplies. Most are *lousy* (under 50% efficient) at light
loads. You can find the energy star designated ones (80%+ efficient
across broad operating range) for $40 and up at places like newegg.com
(seasonic is one of the efficient brands I'm told, and they are quiet,
as less heat loss, therefore less fan needed)
Hope that helps. best of luck.
andy
Adam Van Ornum wrote:
Does anyone have any ALIX or Soekris kits that they don't need any
more? I'm currently running pfSense on a dual P3 system at home and its
way over-powered for what I need and I would like to get something that
uses a lot less electricity and would be a lot quieter. I'm looking at
getting an ALIX 2C3 kit from Netgate but would like to spend as little
as possible so I figured I might as well ask here and see if someone has
one they don't need any more.
Thanks,
Adam
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