[geeks] This Litle Green Monster...

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri Jan 23 08:37:56 CST 2004


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:56:45 +0100
Jochen Kunz wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I measured the power consumption of my Litle Green Monster [1]
> yesterday. 347 watts true RMS.
> Howly SGI cow. This is only a workstation, no big, bad, evil server 
> machine loaded with dozens of disks.
> 
> [1] Octane single R12k 300 MHz, 2 GB RAM, SSE + SE dual head GFX, PCI 
> card cage + PCI FDDI NIC, 1 x 9 GB + 2 x 18 GB IBM UW SCSI disks.

I've got a similar setup.  My G5 and the Octane can't coexist on the
same UPS without tripping it into overload.  I need to buy a second one
to dedicate to the Octane....

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Kurt                 "I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a 
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                      human affairs." 
                                                   -- Albert Einstein



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