Joshua Zelinsky wrote:
> 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?
>
There is a significant diference else there would be no options like do
not run when on battery power and would the temperature of an idle
system not be lower than that of a system running mprime/prime95
With some processors power consuption of an idle processor is less than
1/10th of a busy processor.
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