Well, so long....

Magnethead

Magnethead

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High electric bill and heater of a computer.

Went and bought a Mac Mini. $449 from WorstBuy plus some DVI adapters. Money I didn't really have to spend, but gets me off this Hackintosh from 2009/2010. Should save 150 watts according to my UPS- That's 3600 watts a day and 108,000 watts a month. 108 KWh/mo is quit a bit, even if it's only $10/mo on the electric bill. Losing the inefficient heat production should help as well.
 
The Mac Mini is the little thing with the apple logo.

The Hackintosh is the big black tower with 10" fan behind it. It's normally a 24/7 machine.

The computer to the left is my media machine, normally off unless I'm working on content.

The other beast. Well we won't go there.

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Just checked the UPS. Decommissioning the old tower took 180 watts of load off the grid- 4,320 watt hours per day and 129.6 KWh per month. At $0.14/KWh = $18.14 per month saved....
 
so the audio on this thing is a bit lacking. USB webcam mic is very lacking and headphone port is just that, headphones. Guess i have to get an analog microphone and HDMI to analog audio convertor for speakers.
 
I wanna know what the hell "the other beast" is haha
 
I may try and build a shelving unit to help organize things in the closet. Even with one computer removed and the mini moved to my desk, it's still a mess in there. Getting rid of the extra cables from the old tower did clean up the snake a little. Also got my Bluetooth earpiece to work with it for video chatting.

The hardest part of the beast is heat management. Thus the large fans. I could replace it with a drobo, but that would require more money and drobo can't read the data on the drives now. I don't really program on it much anymore, and it's 13 years old. Mostly used for network storage now. Very costly and hot network storage. It doesn't really draw that much power though, only 120-130 watts or so.

I looked over at the UPS, with the Mac mini and the beast on the big UPS, I have about a 25 minute runtime. The 6 screens are on a separate, smaller UPS.
 
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