Subj : RE: The BOINC Project
To   : Weatherman
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Jul 21 2022 06:51:31

  Re: RE: The BOINC Project
  By: Weatherman to Spectre on Sun Jul 17 2022 07:23 pm

 > 
 > S> Our power prices are becoming quite hideous.. already up some 160% and
 > S> expect ing more of the same. But I noticed some time back some of my
 > S> "higher performance" systems which were pretty long in the tooth were
 > S> quite power hungry... The OctoCore sabretooth system sucked about 140W by
 > S> itself I think it was, and the quad XEONs weren't much better... I kinda
 > S> down graded to Core2s after that... made a huge dent in the power bill.
 > 
 > Same here.  I was paying under 5 cents/kwh last summer.  We are up over 8 cents now
 > 
 > I'm locked into a 3 year natural gas price, so that was sort of lucky planning.  No
 > ovider that is less in the fall.
 > 
 > - Mark
 > 
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I see your 8 cents/kwh and raise to 16.

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