Chris Caldwell wrote: >> an offsetting consideration, with today's' uberfast CPUs, an >> idle processor chip draws maybe 5-10 watts, while one doing >> max work is as much as 120 watts... this almost certainly >> requires the system fans to spin on 'high', which greatly >> increases the ambient noise, as well as heat output (your 800 >> CPUs would be drawing 80kW more than they would idle, thats >> not peanuts). >> > > Compared to what we spend lighting stadiums for football games > and night practices, it is peanuts. But the noise and heat > indeed has kept from running projects on some of my 9 personal > machines. > The stadium lights aren't on 24 hours per day, 7 days a week all year around, though.
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