Brian J. Beesley wrote:
> > 2.What the are actual monetary costs would be of running Prime95. In
> > particular, what are the percentage increases from normal costs.
>
>Depends how much extra you're running the system ... if it's on 24
>hours a day anyway, the answer is _nothing_. Normally I switch off
>monitors on systems left running unattended (this is in any case good
>practise from the fire prevention point of view); power consumption
>of system units does vary but somewhere around 150W would be typical.
>So allow 1 KWh per 6 hours extra running. How much that costs
>obviously depends on how greedy your utility provider is.
What about running all the extra floating point operations? Is there no
significant affect?
Joshua Zelinsky
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