Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
Numbers are tough to comment on without having a specific list, how many hours running,etc.
I always saw to people when they start, "Do what you can and whatever that amount is, it is the "right" amount.
Now blunt talk:
If your not paying the electric and the AC can handdle the load run them all or whatever your comfortable with.
Now this old fool needs sleep..
Its 50/50 right now – I pay for home but the office is included in the rent. Unfortunately I have the 5580 and 5680 boxes at my apartment so I shut those down at night or when I’m not using them but there are enough at the office to crank out some decent numbers.

Has anyone ever put together an analysis of work done vs. power consumption? For example, I have a hard time believing that two of my Pentium4 boxes would be worth it to run – they are old and consume a lot of power even when compared to a dual X5680 machine that is brand new. Is this the same for an E8600 compared to a Q9650 – that the work done per watt is going to be higher on the quad-core than on the dual-core? I don’t want to be running machines at my apartment that aren’t going to do much other than raise my electric bill. At the office on the other hand…