The box was on the order of $550 with limited memory (4 GB) and hard drive (73 GB) space. Memory can easily be upgraded (readily available and reasonably cheap), SCSI hard drive space is more pricey of course. Electricity is a TBD ... this is a 220V system though so I think that kept the price lower. One has to be electrically inclined or readily available 220 outlets. Power supplies are 1470W ... redundant of course. Full up operation will draw a bit of power for sure. But, if one looks at 1.5 KW per hour ... that is roughly $0.15 per hour to operate ... roughly $3.60 a day ... on the order of $100 a month. If I run it for the month full out ... pricey for what I do ... but it doesn't need to be online all the time for what I am doing. Plus ... most of the time it will idle ... I am guessing $30-$50 a month if I let it idle. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mr. MailingLists Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:04 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Hardware Question - 64 bit On 12/22/2009 1:52 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Randy Clarksean wrote: > >> Ok .. just purchased a used Dell PowerEdge 6850 on Ebay. 4 CPUs at 3.16 >> GHz. I purchased it to make a computational box out of it ... wanting >> the 8 cores and lots of memory. > > > How much electricity does that thing use? > > Mike > I'm curious to see around how much did it cost you? I love picking up slightly outdated beefy machines, build myself a dual Nocona awhile back but have been looking to add to my collection ;-) I'm curious to see how much 'lectricity is used too, under high load of course. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list