<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>On 30 Sep 2013, at 14:37, Dave Badia <<a href="mailto:dbadia@gmail.com">dbadia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Nice setup. About how much did it cost for the components? Do you happen to have stats on idle power consumption?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had some items already, case, psu, ram, ssd so really I just bought a motherboard and cpu, oh and yet another 4TB hard disk :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><img height="1" width="1" id="bdaa45e9-5796-4e5b-ac92-294342850ca3" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7DFF4C9D-F0FB-4C6E-92AF-B49EC02C7B71@dinkum.org.uk"><br><img height="1" width="1" id="2f5f6e0b-a564-40f0-a425-189e08871926" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7DFF4C9D-F0FB-4C6E-92AF-B49EC02C7B71@dinkum.org.uk"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br>Item<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Quantity<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>client price<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>VAT (20%)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Item Tot.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Line Total<br>2823401 (Intel BX80646I34340 - Intel Core i3 (4340) 3.6GHz Processor 4MB L3 Cache 54W 5GT/s Bus Speed (Boxed))<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>98.92<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>19.78<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>118.70<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>118.70<br>B1663941 (ASUS H87I-PLUS - Asus H87I-PLUS Intel H87 1150 Mini ITX 2 DDR3 USB3 6 SATA3 RAID)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>76.79<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>15.36<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>92.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>92.15<br>B1700197 (Seagate ST4000VM000 - Seagate 3.5" 4TB SATA3 Video 3.5 Hard Drive 5900RPM 64MB Cache Pipeline HD 24/7)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>130.72<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>26.14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>156.86<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>156.86<br>Delivery: England & Wales (non-guaranteed next working day)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>----<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>8.50<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1.70<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10.20<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10.20<br>Voucher Credit<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>----<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<br>Discount<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>----<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-0.00<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <br>Total Ex. VAT<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>314.93<br>VAT<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>62.99<br>GRAND TOTAL (GBP):<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>377.92<br><img height="1" width="1" id="6167bf3d-ff6d-4669-9159-e072544038ed" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7DFF4C9D-F0FB-4C6E-92AF-B49EC02C7B71@dinkum.org.uk"><br><img height="1" width="1" id="b5e7d005-1f7e-4c08-bb36-fdc0c9621047" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7DFF4C9D-F0FB-4C6E-92AF-B49EC02C7B71@dinkum.org.uk"><br><br><br>I did some power tests this morning, not that accurate as I'm using my UPS to measure how much more power is used over the server's idle use:</div><div><br></div><div>~70w while playing a 1080i50 video</div><div>~40w while sitting on a mythTV menu.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't pushed it hard yet but running Unigine Heaven 4.0 (quite slowly, 9fps) it's maxing one core and using around 70w again.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a reasonably efficient 350w psu but wondering if the biggest 160w PicoPSU will be man enough to run everything in a nice media center case, like the Silverstone LC19 or Streacom FC5.<br><br>btw the 4TB HDD is in the backend server so not included in the ~70w.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ok Unigine Valley pushes both cores and it's using ~127w, seems like the GPU is given a little more to do too, it's warmed up a little to 65 degrees, bear in mind this is a passive card.<br><img height="1" width="1" id="f07b2ad2-7f10-46f2-a5ba-6042cf4a6329" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1ACFA544-1283-4557-8573-EE531DF487AD@dinkum.org.uk"><img height="1" width="1" id="9d2205b3-4d77-4995-9569-933983035b11" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1ACFA544-1283-4557-8573-EE531DF487AD@dinkum.org.uk"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Ive always used atoms for my FEs in the past but like the idea of having extra horsepower in case its needed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had an Atom motherboard, a Supermicro server board here for another project so I have tried it out when the old motherboard went bang. I wasn't very impressed generally and it's obviously totally useless for software decode.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Dave<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote><br></body></html>