m1919 wrote:
I've considered in the past running old machines as servers, any idea what the power draw on that rig will be under normal use?
To much. 🤣
About 100w per cpu and about 150w for the gpu.
From the PSU it will be around 550w from the wall it will be more like 6-700w watt.
That's at 100% full load. I bought a new psu for the system witch will help, its not a gold 80+ or anything. But it will help keep it down.
For what I'm doing it will probably pull about 500w from the wall.
If the system is a keeper I'll get a better psu. I have a bad habit of keeping a system for a week or two and then parting it out.
If this system is not to loud I think I'll be keeping it. I'm sure if I can get some later 800FSB xeons to work I can get the power draw lower.
a 3.6ghz xeon at 533fsb should be at 2.4ghz ( if my math is right) and I can lower the voltage and still have a faster cpu then the older 1bm cache xeon's.
I also don't have a modern PC at home and only have one running/working retro pc at a time. I have no use or interest in newer systems. So it's not like I'll be getting a bigger power bill or anything.
The idea here is to have a best of both worlds. A retro PC I can enjoy and a home server I can build a fun little website and have my own email Doman wile being able to have a PC I can use every day.
One 1gb and CPU for me, 1gb and cpu for the server 😀