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E5300 vs Q6600 power consumption?

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I have a spare Q6600 machine, tempted to put it into a server case and use it as a home server. I also have a E5300.

Would I save much power if this machine is on 24/7 by using the E5300 instead of the Q6600?

They'll both be run at stock speed, with all power saving features turned on.

Cheers
 
Cheers,

I have an inline energy monitor, but tbh, I can't be bothered to swap the cpu's out once I've picked one.

Seeing as it's 40W less in those comparisons, I'll go with the E5300. 40W will soon add up.
 
Just a file server, maybe a little light encoding from time to time, but nothing major. I use my main machine for encoding.

The specs are..

P35 chipset
E5300
4GB 8500 DDR2 ram
1x 500GB drive for OS, photos, music
multiple large drives for holding videos
multiple large drives for first backup of the above.
external hard drives for second backups of the above.
HX620W PSU

All in a lovely Coolermaster S4000-SX1, the case will be in a black Ikea LackRack

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Excuse the horrible photos :D
 
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bledd. said:
Cheers,

I have an inline energy monitor, but tbh, I can't be bothered to swap the cpu's out once I've picked one.

Seeing as it's 40W less in those comparisons, I'll go with the E5300. 40W will soon add up.
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No probs :)

Indeed, 40w will soon add up over time :(

Edit: You should be ok with the E5300.
 
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£290 RRP

Some sucker put a load of them up on ebay that they found in a warehouse, got mine fully boxed never opened for £60 delivered :D
 
@bledd have you considered using something like what I have in my sig ?

At idle you're looking at 20W for the machine + 2W per idle disk. I can happily keep that machine running 24/7 without worry of cost and hurting dolphins
 
bledd. said:
Assuming 15p per unit (I can't remember how much mine are)

£52.56 per year if there's 40W more being used.
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Epic fail on my part I just assumed both CPUs would power save but they are both monsters with > 100 watts on those anand tech links... Still it will keep the room warm in the winter
 
Subliminal Aura said:
@bledd have you considered using something like what I have in my sig ?

At idle you're looking at 20W for the machine + 2W per idle disk. I can happily keep that machine running 24/7 without worry of cost and hurting dolphins
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The thing is, I already have the parts. So I'd be spending money to save money, which would take a while to pay itself off.

I do also have a little 30W Via machine that I use as another backup server, Artigo 2000 I think it's called. It's very low powered but limited to 1.5TB hard drives. I could add external USB drives, but it's not the quickest thing either, the gigabit connection tops out at around 45MB/s over the network
 
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