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I get that but the blog discussed a pretty beefy setup. My whole rack still used less power than my gaming PC at load but after doing the math I ultimately save

I get that but the blog discussed a pretty beefy setup. My whole rack still used less power than my gaming PC at load but after doing the math I ultimately saved more money by going serverless for my apps and dumping (non-critical) data into a B2 bucket on paper. In reality I just started shutting things off and only turn them on when I need them. I'm curious as to what others are doing to save costs if anything. I love the hobby but we're in a recession, lol!

getwiththeprog 3y ago
MiniITX boards are low idle power, 17 watts for idle with a Ryzen 5600 compared to a full size boards 50 watts. I would no longer buy anything larger, even for a gaming machine.
- hqsolomo 3y ago
  Amen on that. The past few rigs I built for myself were all ITX machines. I went through and undervolted my CPU, RAM, and GPU. Once my current gaming rig dies I'm just going to stick with the consoles for gaming until they goes to shit as well. In an era of abundance we seem to be trying to use more power to support what we already do, rather than rethinking what we do to use less power. It's a shame!
  - dheera 3y ago
    Honestly I could I could easily solar power all of my compute needs (and probably a lot more) from my apartment's roof. But at last, I'm a renter and my property management isn't going to allow that. We're literally wasting clean energy because of a bunch of rich turds hogging real estate with shitty rules about what you can't do. When my property changed management the new management even banned EV charging on the property and locked up all the outlets in the parking lot. These kind of management are not welcome in Silicon Valley but somehow they are here.
    - hqsolomo 3y ago
      It jumbles my jimmies hearing about outright rejection of modern tech by industries that would best benefit from said tech. I'd almost be willing to bet money that your landlord would charge a "renewable energy" fee even if they're just dumping power back to the grid for $$$ even if they had the panels
- dheera 3y ago
  I really wish more Mini-ITX boards came out that allowed GPUs to be horizontal so it could fit in a 2U case. Unfortunately making it vertical makes it 4U, negating the size advantages of Mini-ITX.
  - hqsolomo 3y ago
    So I actually "repurposed" a riser cable from an old ITX build to slap it into my primary proxmox server to play around with home-rolled VDI. Surprisingly, it worked. If you're feeling bold you could try that route
CTDOCodebases 3y ago
If you don’t require ECC RAM a common setup these days is a Proxmox cluster set up on refurbished USFF PCs like the Lenovo m720. They sip power at idle. My personal approach is separate archived storage from working storage and keep archive storage offline until I need it. Keeping hard drives spinning is costly.

getwiththeprog 3y ago

MiniITX boards are low idle power, 17 watts for idle with a Ryzen 5600 compared to a full size boards 50 watts. I would no longer buy anything larger, even for a gaming machine.

hqsolomo 3y ago
Amen on that. The past few rigs I built for myself were all ITX machines. I went through and undervolted my CPU, RAM, and GPU. Once my current gaming rig dies I'm just going to stick with the consoles for gaming until they goes to shit as well. In an era of abundance we seem to be trying to use more power to support what we already do, rather than rethinking what we do to use less power. It's a shame!
- dheera 3y ago
  Honestly I could I could easily solar power all of my compute needs (and probably a lot more) from my apartment's roof. But at last, I'm a renter and my property management isn't going to allow that. We're literally wasting clean energy because of a bunch of rich turds hogging real estate with shitty rules about what you can't do. When my property changed management the new management even banned EV charging on the property and locked up all the outlets in the parking lot. These kind of management are not welcome in Silicon Valley but somehow they are here.
  - hqsolomo 3y ago
    It jumbles my jimmies hearing about outright rejection of modern tech by industries that would best benefit from said tech. I'd almost be willing to bet money that your landlord would charge a "renewable energy" fee even if they're just dumping power back to the grid for $$$ even if they had the panels
dheera 3y ago
I really wish more Mini-ITX boards came out that allowed GPUs to be horizontal so it could fit in a 2U case. Unfortunately making it vertical makes it 4U, negating the size advantages of Mini-ITX.
- hqsolomo 3y ago
  So I actually "repurposed" a riser cable from an old ITX build to slap it into my primary proxmox server to play around with home-rolled VDI. Surprisingly, it worked. If you're feeling bold you could try that route

CTDOCodebases 3y ago

If you don’t require ECC RAM a common setup these days is a Proxmox cluster set up on refurbished USFF PCs like the Lenovo m720. They sip power at idle. My personal approach is separate archived storage from working storage and keep archive storage offline until I need it. Keeping hard drives spinning is costly.