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Originally Posted by Aquaplant

Those power consumption figures are outright mad, how did you measure them exactly?

Mad? How so? I have an AC induction clamp ammeter, I use that to get the current draw of the server by clipping it on its power cable, and a cheap multimeter to measure the mains voltage. Wattage is obtained via the equation W=VA.

They seem like perfectly acceptable wattages to me, remember any hpc type application will load your system to it's max. I've even found that folding makes my CPU 2C hotter than 6 instances of K10 CPUBurn. Under normal usage, the server pulls about 150W, and most of that is the power used to keep the disk drives spinning, and the desktop pulls about 375W, which is still high, but it's overclocked on a board with High RDS(on) mosfets, which are horribly inefficient. (Srsly, never buy any 4-phase mobo from MSI. ever. their 8-phase mobos are quite good though.)

And yes, HNM is right, electricity is expensive. However, I got my shiny new Phenom II X6 around the same time the AC stopped working, so the new AC provides a great excuse for any differences in the power bill...