nekonoko Site Admin Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 2:31 a.m. and authored 7591 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 3:53 p.m...
Wow, electric bill is down $81.46 from last month! That paid for the D510MO right there.
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mgtremaine Enthusiast Who joined Feb. 22, 2006, 2:58 p.m. and authored 272 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 5:04 p.m...
Nice! I got my extension cable yesterday [I always like the speed which newegg gets me my stuff] and I got the a test configuration up. Mine is drawing 20watts up to 22watts under load. Which is about 1/4 what my current rig draws. So that is a pretty darn good. Drive access seems good and I'm going to build out some bench kits to push the little box and see where it breaks down.
-Mike
PS - I should add that a standard USB->IDE adapter and a gerneric CD-ROM drive was enough to get it to boot without having to give up a SATA port. Smiles all around that it worked nicely.
PPS - The CPU temp was also only 30C under load with only a single case fan [Silenx IXTREMA 80mm 32cfm 14dBA] I'll probably go with 2 fans in the final setup but it's really quiet.
nekonoko Site Admin Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 2:31 a.m. and authored 7591 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 6:04 p.m...
mgtremaine wrote:
PS - I should add that a standard USB->IDE adapter and a gerneric CD-ROM drive was enough to get it to boot without having to give up a SATA port. Smiles all around that it worked nicely.
Ah, that's a pretty good idea - I may go that route instead. Thanks much!
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hamei Old Salt Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 5:10 p.m. and authored 6608 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 6:59 p.m...
nekonoko wrote:
Wow, electric bill is down $81.46 from last month!
Has it been unusually warm there, tho ? Usually at Spring Festival I have to wear three layers and mittens to go outside, this year I might wear a sweater. Or less. And the ice sculptures are all melting at the Ice Festival in Harbin. It's usually about -10* C there this time of year.
bri3d Addict Who joined June 28, 2008, 11:08 a.m. and authored 566 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 9:05 p.m...
I really doubt the old Origin hardware really cost $81.46 to run - as a matter of fact, that seems entirely impossible given the PSU specs.
On the other hand, I'm sure avoiding the noise is really nice
hamei Old Salt Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 5:10 p.m. and authored 6608 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 10:15 p.m...
bri3d wrote:
I really doubt the old Origin hardware really cost $81.46 to run ...
Ever since Enron took California for a long walk off a short pier, electricity has been abnormally expensive there.
What was it I didn't understand about business again, bri3d ?
nekonoko Site Admin Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 2:31 a.m. and authored 7591 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2010, 10:43 p.m...
Yep, power is incredibly expensive, plus usage past certain thresholds (pricing tiers) increases the cost per kWh dramatically, in my case from baseline of $0.11877 to $0.27572 for 131-200% of baseline.
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Selected bill: 2/09/2010 Last month: 1/08/2010 Bill Impact
Billing Days: 32 days 30 days +$8
Average Cost per kWh: $0.1209 / kWh $0.1547 / kWh -$28
Average Use per Day: 25.91 kWh / day 39.10 kWh / day -$61
Total Electric: $100.21 $181.46 -$81.25
This month I didn't go past 130% of baseline, using 96kWh over baseline @ $0.13502. Last month I hit the 131%-200% bracket, using 279.64 kWh @ $0.27572.
I used 13.19 kWh less per day, which is a reduction of about 550 watts per hour (0.55kWh). So yes, a savings of $81.25 due to powering off the Origins seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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dc_v01 Addict Who joined July 29, 2005, 3:38 p.m. and authored 766 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 10:04 a.m...
Not to rush to anyone's defense, but I did a double take when I saw the numbers, too. I pay significantly more for electricity (~$.20/kWh) and you saved as much as my entire power bill (~$85)!! My gut instinct would have been that the Origins only draw 300W and saved about half of what you saw. So much for that. Was wondering if its warm enough over there that you need
cooling
year round with the old system on? (multiplying effect?) The environment doesn't affect my electric power bill significantly - just draft/vent motors for the steam furnace, no AC.
nekonoko Site Admin Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 2:31 a.m. and authored 7591 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 10:12 a.m...
dc_v01 wrote:
I pay significantly more for electricity (~$.20/kWh)
But that's just counting the average use cost, not the tier 3 pricing at $.27572/kWh that the Origin bumped me up to. It's like a tax bracket - using just a bit more power can have huge repercussions on the final bill.
No additional cooling was used - the change was powering off two fully loaded Origin 350 machines, each with 8GB RAM, 4 700MHz processors and two drives (8 CPUs 16GB RAM total).
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mgtremaine Enthusiast Who joined Feb. 22, 2006, 2:58 p.m. and authored 272 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 10:26 a.m...
I'm not sure why anyone would doubt what the bill says? Not sure how other places handle it but California has multi-tiered billing and when hit tier 3 and 4 [SDG&E has tier 4] the price really jacks up. Arguing with fact is rather silly, remember Neko was runnning O350 x2 with numalink.
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16717825
..... Enough said.
I ran the apache bench this morning I like it.
Code:
First Test 250 Concurrent
[mgt@vega ~]$ ab -n 100000 -c 250 -w http://polaris.stellarcore.net/index.html
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Completed 10000 requests Completed 20000 requests Completed 30000 requests Completed 40000 requests Completed 50000 requests Completed 60000 requests Completed 70000 requests Completed 80000 requests Completed 90000 requests Completed 100000 requests Finished 100000 requests
Server Software: Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname: polaris.stellarcore.net
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /index.html
Document Length: 6386 bytes
Concurrency Level: 250
Time taken for tests: 59.899 seconds
Complete requests: 100000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 665541140 bytes
HTML transferred: 638920392 bytes
Requests per second: 1669474.92
Transfer rate: 11111042.40 kb/s received
Connnection Times (ms)
min avg max
Connect: 0 44 3009
Processing: 16 105 9874
Total: 16 149 12883
Second Test 500 Concurrent
[mgt@vega ~]$ ulimit -HSn '1024' [mgt@vega ~]$ ab -n 100000 -c 500 -w http://polaris.stellarcore.net/index.html
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Completed 10000 requests Completed 20000 requests Completed 30000 requests Completed 40000 requests Completed 50000 requests Completed 60000 requests Completed 70000 requests Completed 80000 requests Completed 90000 requests Completed 100000 requests Finished 100000 requests
Server Software: Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname: polaris.stellarcore.net
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /index.html
Document Length: 6386 bytes
Concurrency Level: 500
Time taken for tests: 59.840 seconds
Complete requests: 100000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 665734312 bytes
HTML transferred: 639101594 bytes
Requests per second: 1671114.14
Transfer rate: 11125180.24 kb/s received
Connnection Times (ms)
min avg max
Connect: 0 67 3037
Processing: 30 231 16454
Total: 30 298 19491
hamei Old Salt Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 5:10 p.m. and authored 6608 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 10:47 a.m...
mgtremaine wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would doubt what the bill says?
I don't think anyone meant to doubt - it's just that if you aren't acquainted with the situation it's kind of a shock. More of a "holy spinning electric meter, Batman ! Really ?" kind of thing.
nekonoko Site Admin Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 2:31 a.m. and authored 7591 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 12:07 p.m...
mgtremaine wrote:
I ran the apache bench this morning I like it.
Nice! Which OS did you go with?
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mgtremaine Enthusiast Who joined Feb. 22, 2006, 2:58 p.m. and authored 272 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 12:46 p.m...
Centos 5.4, the httpd.conf was out of the box I think Max Clients is 150 on RH/Centos I rarely have to tune that.
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mgtremaine Enthusiast Who joined Feb. 22, 2006, 2:58 p.m. and authored 272 notes
Wrote the following at Feb. 11, 2010, 2:09 p.m...
I like 6C break out the winter parka there might be snow in SF. The mbmon seems about right I checked the BIOS after the last reboot and the numbers are about the same. Still 25C is 77F the CPU is pretty amazing. The heat sink is cool to the touch.
-Mike
ritchan Enthusiast Who joined March 31, 2008, 6:47 a.m. and authored 229 notes
Wrote the following at April 3, 2010, 4:20 a.m...
Ah, so that's why the page with the Origin 350 specs was taken down. What are you gonna do with the Origin 350s then, neko?
nekonoko Site Admin Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 2:31 a.m. and authored 7591 notes
Wrote the following at April 6, 2010, 6:41 a.m...
ritchan wrote:
What are you gonna do with the Origin 350s then, neko?
I'll probably sell them at some point, it's just such a hassle calculating costs, taking care of shipping/packaging etc. that I haven't offered them up just yet. I bought the O350s locally so I didn't have to deal with that, but when I sold/shipped my O300s to France and the east coast of the US it was quite a pain
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indyman007 Addict Who joined Aug. 20, 2008, 5:38 a.m. and authored 831 notes
Wrote the following at April 13, 2010, 5:25 p.m...
I know that I am reviving an old topic, but do you guys think it could be used as a home theatre PC?
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Wrote the following at April 13, 2010, 5:50 p.m...
The D510MO or the Origin 350? lol... I kid.
Simon
sybrfreq Old Salt Who joined Aug. 21, 2007, 10:12 p.m. and authored 1647 notes
Wrote the following at April 13, 2010, 6:29 p.m...
I would go with one of the ion boards. Yes, it's a geforce, but it should be a little better than intel graphics.