> 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.
In winter, when you are heating the house, computer
is just replacing the heating system, at no extra cost.
Regards,
Denis Cazor
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