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OK now that summer is upon us and the need to conserve electricity, I'm a bit concerned by the amount of energy my boxen will eat up. Not to mention, it's getting hot my in home office. So, has anyone figured out how much a WU cost in watts to fold? How about one of those SMP WUs?
It all depends on your hardware and which protien you get to fold.
Quads are better than Duals, as they give 100% more folding power for only 50% more power draw.
Low energy CPU's rule.
Get the most energy efficient PSU you can and aim for it to be only 2x bigger than the system power draw.
A simple Quad core system will only pull 150-180 watts max depending on overclock, so a good 300-400 watt PSU if ideal.
Wow, thanks for the speedy reply Sunin.
By my sig you can see my E6600 boxen are only OC'ed to 3.0 GHz and 2.8 GHz. I'm uncomfortable running these boxen any harder than 3 GHz 24/7. From what I understood an OC'ed quad pulled a lot of watts, that's why I almost fell out of my chair when I read Tigerbitten's and your wattage figures. I understand how vcore and the other voltage adjustments can effect the total wattage draw. The info was much appreciated
Being "temp anal" I could probably loose some of my fans, obviously, I didn't go WC'ing for quietness and for the real "kicker" one of my cases is a Antec 900 with a huge "blow hole" fan . After HD tray mods, rad bracket mods, etc, I've been kind of leary about doing anything with the Antec 900 case. (IMO a great air cooled gaming case, but a pain in the rear end for WC'ing internally )
My highest Quad at 3.6 which took a bit of voltage, I think 1.4v to the cpu is taking 198W, which for the 40watt increase over my E6600 is producing 2x the work... your never going to be able to get that sort of watt to performance difference anywhere else thus why it is strongly recommended to use Q6600's if you can afford them.
Also for temp's get a TRUE HSF that puppy right there will eliminate 99% of peoples concerns for temps on the Q6600 with Two 78CFM fans = hard to break 55c at 3.6Ghz When it gets 80F in my condo I hit up to 59, but that is extremely warm in my condo obviously!
My 2 E2160's @ 2.7 (300x9) are using between 100-110 watts each. They are diskless, using Gigabyte P945 board, 500w generic PS's 1gb ram (1gbx1)