Quad G5 power consumption

2012-07-30 Thread Illirik Smirnov
Does anyone have any figures as to peak quad G5 power consumption? The University has six spares and I think I wanna make a Beowulf cluster for kicks. -- -- Illirik Smirnov -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Quad G5 power consumption

2012-07-30 Thread JoeTaxpayer
, Illirik wrote: Does anyone have any figures as to peak quad G5 power consumption? The University has six spares and I think I wanna make a Beowulf cluster for kicks. -- -- Illirik Smirnov -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Quad G5 power consumption

2012-07-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser
see http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24037 165W idle, 550W max, so probably 400W-450W or so. As a real world figure: my quad G5 routinely runs at near full tilt when building TenFourFox. At Highest Performance, 2 7200rpm SATA drives, 7800GT video card and two USB-FW expansion cards, it pulls

Re: Quad G5 power consumption

2012-07-30 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: Does anyone have any figures as to peak quad G5 power consumption? The University has six spares and I think I wanna make a Beowulf cluster for kicks. -- -- Illirik Smirnov I have a G5 Dual 2.7 and it draws 39 Watts off, 95Watts

Re: Quad G5 power consumption

2012-07-30 Thread No No
On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: Does anyone have any figures as to peak quad G5 power consumption? The University has six spares and I think I wanna make a Beowulf cluster for kicks. -- -- Illirik Smirnov Hello Illirik: Apple has a power (Watts) and heat (BTU) page

Re: Quad G5 power consumption

2012-07-30 Thread No No
to tinker around. On Monday, July 30, 2012 3:55:33 PM UTC-4, Illirik wrote: Does anyone have any figures as to peak quad G5 power consumption? The University has six spares and I think I wanna make a Beowulf cluster for kicks. -- -- Illirik Smirnov Yes, but that is what universities are _for_