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Planning to make a PC for downloading purposes as electric bills are too much for my PC conf.
If you have one really old PC that is able to run XP, PM me the offers, or start thread in FS forum and let me know.
Something like PIII/845/128MB/10GB will be perfect as long it costs the minimum.\


EDIT (location adding):

My location (for shipping to) Gopalganj,733141, West Bengal.
 
arup said:
Planning to make a PC for downloading purposes as electric bills are too much for my PC conf.
If you have one really old PC that is able to run XP, PM me the offers, or start thread in FS forum and let me know.
Something like PIII/845/128MB/10GB will be perfect as long it costs the minimum.
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I have a p4 1.8GHz, mobo and 256MB DDR ram just lying waste for the past 5 years. PM me your offer. where do you live?
 
Whats your current config?

Most new mid range configs are efficient enough for very low power consumption at idle. You would need to have a REALLY high end rig to save enough on electricity to buy an old PC and actually save anything overall
 
mehrotra.akash said:
Whats your current config?

Most new mid range configs are efficient enough for very low power consumption at idle. You would need to have a REALLY high end rig to save enough on electricity to buy an old PC and actually save anything overall
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My current config is a power hungry one. Below details,
Procy: AMD Phenom II 1075T @3Ghz
Mobo: ASUS M5A88-M
RAM: 2x Corsair XMS3 4GB
HDD: Seagate Baracudda 7200, 1TB
ODD: Moderbaer DVD-RW (rerely used)
CRD:Zebronics 3.5"
Cabby: Iball with extra 3 fans.
PSU: iball 400Watts.
VDU: BenQ G2025HDA
AUD: Creative SBS A520
OC: No,Never
Once I measured power consumption and it was near 250watts in average web browsing, and didn't get below 200watts at idle (idle means avast was still on). I can turn off O/P devices but system will eat more than 150Watts then. This means overnight downloading will eat 150x10=1.5KWh which means 10Rs electric. And this comes to 300Rs electric cost at months end.

I know that a P3/P4 system will eat near 50-60Watts for downloading so I am for it.
I'm also thinking another possibility that involves buying a NAS which supports downloading so that power will be max 10Watt.

I'd be happy to get your feedback on my decision.

-Arup
 
@mehrotra.akash
I didn't know that. I thought older confs will be less hungry.
@harry_houdini
I'm a electronics enthusiastic. I measured it by putting a 0.1Ohm/3Watt power resistor in series between grid_neutral and the neutral_in.
At 220V, 1Amp will drop 0.1Volts across the resistor and 1Amp at 220V is 220Watts.
So, if I get 0.001Vac (4digit multimeter minimum reading) across the two terminals of the resistor, it will mean 2.2Watts load.
Then I can easily get watts reading from my multimeter. Example 0.075 in multimeter means 165Watts load and so on.....
 
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arup said:
harry_houdini
I'm a electronics enthusiastic. I measured it by putting a 0.1Ohm/3Watt power resistor in series between grid_neutral and the neutral_in.
At 220V, 1Amp will drop 0.1Volts across the resistor and 1Amp at 220V is 220Watts.
So, if I get 0.001Vac (4digit multimeter minimum reading) across the two terminals of the resistor, it will mean 2.2Watts load.
Then I can easily get watts reading from my multimeter. Example 0.075 in multimeter means 165Watts load and so on.....
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Thanks for the reply ,
:blink: Ah well I thought there was some easy method , anyways appreciate your knowledge .
 
you could buy a new pogoplug / seagate dosckstar/ raspberrypi for around 4k and keep it on for 24 hours and it wont take more than a unit. these tiny units takes just about <10W consumption to download with usb hdd attached
 
Do you need a keyboard by any chance? :P

I have a Logitech K100, sparingly used as a temporary KB until I got hold of the TVSE Gold I use ATM.

This is the link - Classic Keyboard K100

Take a look. And let me know. Willing to let it go for Rs. 250 shipped.
 
Gannu said:
Do you need a keyboard by any chance? :P
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Thanks for the offer. I already have secondary usb keyboard(backup) in the case when batteries run out of my primary HP GM322A.
The batteries run 3-4months in keyboard but in mouse it runs 1-2weeks max. If you have any branded(microsoft/logitech/hp/dell) WL mouse that runs atleast 2+months in battery, I'll buy it.

I have preference on a PC than any NAS/Pi/etc as I can do some other tasks on it as well if needed. In the minimum I need HDD,RAM,Procy,Mobo. I have a cheap PSU lying around(400rs 450watt psu, but I know it is really 150-200watts max) and can stuff everything in homemade cabinet(plywood) without buying cabinet.

After some offers received, and eBay scanning, I found that a P3 combo (mobo+procy+ram) is coming in 1-1.5K and P4 combo (mobo+procy+ram) comes in 2-2.5K

If I am to spend 2.5K in old P4, then I think this one will be better at 3100rs (all inclusive, mobo+procy+ram): VIA PC 2000E+ MINI ITX Board with 1 GB DDR 2 RAM Supplier, Exporter, THINPC TECHNOLOGY PVT. LTD. , Mumbai, India

But still I'm here for offers. Any forum member haven't PMed about mobo yet. Send me your offers.
 
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