then in bold...Donating spare computer cycles to the search for alien life seemed fun when electricity bills were usually in double, rather than triple, figures, but are distributed computing projects such as SETI@Home worth the bother now?
With publicity like that...[Saving] Perhaps only a few pounds a year, but every little helps
I might be being cynical here but could that be because they get advertising revenues from the manufactures of such components?UBT - Timbo wrote:...and yet, they will fully endorse a X2 graphics card that might consume 300W of power alone.....
Bloomin' Nora! £40 per month is more than my entire gas & electricity bill! I don't run my PC 24/7 though, and it's three years old now - my processor alone (AMD 64 3800) uses less than half the power of the Q6600 (45w vs 95w IIRC) so I guess it really does depend upon what is in the computer and how you use it. Instead of chucking BOINC completely why not just run it in the background when your doing other stuff?NaRyan wrote:Just out of curiosity I hooked up Mr KilloWatt (reads power draw from the mains plug) to a Q6600 system that I was *ahem*fixing*ahem*.
And going by the results (they vary, with what you got in your poota and the efficiency rating of the PSU!), running boinc on all 4 cores will cost you an extra £4.50 per month (also depends on project, Milkyway uses less power than a PrimeGrid LLR!!)
However if you were to run PS3GRID also (this is on a 8800ULTRA), plus 3 projects it will cost you £11 extra per month!
Boinc is sure starting to look like it's heading for the "bye bye" bin for me
*Note this is based on running your PC 24/7 & have Npower *cough*insertbadword*cough* as your leccy company.
Oh and for anyone curious I est Boinc is costing me about £40 extra per month
That £40 (works out that was just using cpu, cpu+gpu made it more!) was on 5 computersBloomin' Nora! £40 per month is more than my entire gas & electricity bill! I don't run my PC 24/7 though, and it's three years old now - my processor alone (AMD 64 3800) uses less than half the power of the Q6600 (45w vs 95w IIRC) so I guess it really does depend upon what is in the computer and how you use it. Instead of chucking BOINC completely why not just run it in the background when your doing other stuff?
As my heating+cooking is gas I suspect most of my £60/month leccy (old price) is down to boinc :(NaRyan wrote:Just out of curiosity I hooked up Mr KilloWatt (reads power draw from the mains plug) to a Q6600 system that I was *ahem*fixing*ahem*.
And going by the results (they vary, with what you got in your poota and the efficiency rating of the PSU!), running boinc on all 4 cores will cost you an extra £4.50 per month (also depends on project, Milkyway uses less power than a PrimeGrid LLR!!)
However if you were to run PS3GRID also (this is on a 8800ULTRA), plus 3 projects it will cost you £11 extra per month!
Boinc is sure starting to look like it's heading for the "bye bye" bin for me
*Note this is based on running your PC 24/7 & have Npower *cough*insertbadword*cough* as your leccy company.
Oh and for anyone curious I est Boinc is costing me about £40 extra per month
