<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>If your backend is in an air conditioned room, consider replacing your processor. A 2.8 GHz Prescott P4 will consume close to 40W more than a similarly powerful and pin compatible $70 <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116037">1.6 GHz Allendale Pentium</a> , which will translate to roughly $35/year in energy savings assuming a rate of $.08/KwH and AC running 25% of the time.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's something, isn't it? At work I'm looking at consolidating some of our existing servers onto multi-core Xeon systems. We're short on A/C capacity, and the power and heat savings are pretty startling.</div></div><br></body></html>