> 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. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
