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The software and extra drive have arrived, so tonight the mayhem begins.
I've got 2 PC's, one of which will be the WHS and CQC server, and the other which will run the kitchen touchscreen. I'm assuming I should use the more powerful of the two for the WHS system. We're not talking much difference here...one is an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz with 1.5GB ram, and the other is an Athlon 3200 2.0GHz with 1.0 GB RAM. Sadly, the "faster" one is my old media PC, back when I had ambitions of recording HD OTA and playing it back through the house. Alas, where we live, the HD was few and far between (and mostly non-existent), and since Dish added the local HD channels for free, I've no need for the media PC anymore. I'll pull out the nVidia graphics card and put in a cheapo older one, since it's supposed to be headless anyway, and maybe that will save me a few watts.
Speaking of which, I finally got a kill-a-watt, and decided to measure the slower kitchen PC, and it came up as 90 watts. Doing some quick calculations, that ends up being about $6/month, or $72 a year (since we leave it on 24.7). I told my wife this, and she came to the conclusion that since we expect to have the kitchen touchscreen FOREVER (she absolutely loves it...greatest WAF ever), she thinks we might as well go ahead and buy a lower wattage PC specifically for that. woot, new toys! But that will be a different blog thread, I suppose...
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I've got 2 PC's, one of which will be the WHS and CQC server, and the other which will run the kitchen touchscreen. I'm assuming I should use the more powerful of the two for the WHS system. We're not talking much difference here...one is an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz with 1.5GB ram, and the other is an Athlon 3200 2.0GHz with 1.0 GB RAM. Sadly, the "faster" one is my old media PC, back when I had ambitions of recording HD OTA and playing it back through the house. Alas, where we live, the HD was few and far between (and mostly non-existent), and since Dish added the local HD channels for free, I've no need for the media PC anymore. I'll pull out the nVidia graphics card and put in a cheapo older one, since it's supposed to be headless anyway, and maybe that will save me a few watts.
Speaking of which, I finally got a kill-a-watt, and decided to measure the slower kitchen PC, and it came up as 90 watts. Doing some quick calculations, that ends up being about $6/month, or $72 a year (since we leave it on 24.7). I told my wife this, and she came to the conclusion that since we expect to have the kitchen touchscreen FOREVER (she absolutely loves it...greatest WAF ever), she thinks we might as well go ahead and buy a lower wattage PC specifically for that. woot, new toys! But that will be a different blog thread, I suppose...
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