[geeks] This Litle Green Monster...

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Jan 23 07:51:28 CST 2004


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:56:45PM +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 too hope to eventually get my Octane to draw that much or hopefully
more.



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