I watched as everything booted, didn’t pull much more than 150 watts. But it’ll be interesting to see how it goes over time.

FYI - the cluster is pulling 115-140 watts.

• 1x Mac mini 2014, running OMV as a dedicated NAS (i5-4308U, 16GB RAM)
• 4-bay Sabrent DS-SC4B, attached to Mac mini (3x 4TB WD Reds in RAID5, 1x 4TB WD Black as hot spare)
• 1x 8TB WD backup drive (it’s something)
• 2x HP Elitedesk 800 G3 mini (or G4, don’t remember), both running Proxmox (i7-7700T, 32GB RAM each)
• 1x Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running Proxmox (i7-7700, 32GB RAM)

All running multiple VMs (Docker and other) and LXC containers.

I’m impressed, honestly. I was expecting 200+ watts minimum. It’ll be interesting to see the spikes as it’s used over time. I am going to move the HA server (Lenovo M710q running HAOS on a Pentium G4560T & 4GB RAM) down to the cluster soon, as it’s sitting on my desk at the moment…

What is WAF?

You’re probably not wrong, what with him awkwardly hopping around onstage at multiple trump rallies.

That was my thought. Young kids fresh out of school are really easy to manipulate into delusions of grandeur, especially when said delusions are offered by the richest person in the world. He’s gonna leave them out for the wolves.

Current spike from both freezers starting up

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Yeah, I never expect a financial ROI for hobbies; the ROI for that is nothing more than my own enjoyment.

Yeah, my power bill is pretty reasonable already, considering my large family plus all the electronics I run. I just like seeing what everything is doing as a matter of curiosity.

That’s certainly one way to do it…

Ah, but only one is a chest freezer 😉

That, and I used to have a freezer that was a power suck.

That’s either a really efficient PC or a really old freezer 😂

The bedrooms, including my entire master bedroom suite, each have one 15A circuit. No more. That’s how most duplex townhouses are. The lights are currently those damn CFL lights, so they aren’t exactly difficult to dim - CFLs almost do it on their own when they’re close to dying (which these ones are).

That, and it’s a rental house.

I’m eyeballing HWINFO64 right now, it’s saying my GPU is idling at ~28W and the CPU is idling at ~36W. Add a couple watts for the fans, various peripherals, and waste heat; it’s close to what I saw earlier.

The dual 1080p monitors eat up about 30W apiece on their own, when powered and actively displaying something. Barely a watt or two each when in standby mode.

The plugs are rated for 1800W each. Should be fine. I hit 670W a bit earlier, running Furmark VK and Cinebench R23 multi-core simultaneously for shits and giggles.

It’s ~90W at idle; the plug is monitoring everything at my desk. No spinning rust, all solid state. Settings for CPU and GPU are all default at the moment. It does have an 850W PSU, but I’ve had it pulling over 700W at one point (dimming my bedroom lights), so that’s somewhat justified 😅

I’ll dig into settings later, but for now I’m good just turning it off unless I’m using it.

Part of why I’m going with the ‘T’ SKU Pentium G4560T instead of the standard G4560 on my custom NAS build.

Yeah, I noticed haha. Though I did have a big freezer some years ago that was a pretty hefty power suck… I never measured it, but it definitely affected my power bill.

Nice!

TBH I didn’t think it used a whole lot at idle, what with modern manufacturing processes and all. I was fairly surprised.