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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by cr0sh on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:25PM (#20106017)
Unless you were cranking everything to the max 24/7 (like maxing out your GPU while reading/writing to a database while doing a bunch of floating point calcs for something?), it probably idled at around 100 watts. Not great, but not something I'd worry about.
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by cbsks on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:19PM (#20106742)
Like running SETI@home? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I certainly had that running 24/7 when I was in high school.

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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by organsnyder on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:46PM (#20107089)
If it makes you feel better, those older machines probably didn't have much in the way of power management to throttle back at idle.
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by dillonmckay on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:38PM (#20107753)
What?

Mine has a ‘Turbo’ button!

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