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# re: Service lives of old computers vs. how much electricity it takes to run them
=> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~adiabatic/scrawlspace/ adiabatic scrawl for 2021-05-07
Now my computer isn't nesrly as old as suggested in this post. I have a 10 year old computer powering my home server. It is a i2500k with 16GB of DDR3 and a brand new EVGA power supply. This machine is more than just my gemini capsule though. It is my NAS, Webserver, Filesync host, discord bot host, and Minecraft server.
It does all of this fsirly well too leaving plenty of computing power around. But this post has gotten me curious. How much power does each machine draw. I often leave my desktop PC powered on as well, andI wonder of the two, which is using more watts and really how much servers like rhese draw.
I plan on adding a second PC to the house for my girlfriend. She has a Macbook pro but it is not up to the task of doing the video editing she does. So if I was building an rig for her how much extra $$ is my power bill going to rise.
I think though this scrawl made me rethink grabbing another rPi (currently my 3B is a pihole) and
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