Article on rig power consumption

[Gadzooks]

Purely anecdotal, but I saw a substantial decrease in my power bill when I retired my G5 and 24" Cinema and 4 external hard drives and all the trimmings, and switched to a 24" iMac. It was at least a $20 savings a month. (I also stopped using the plasma tv unless I was watching a movie - a 17" lcd is fine for the news and whatever).

Here in CA, power ain't cheap. Lower bills is good.

Also, I never noticed how much *noise* the old system made, until I turned it all off!

[Moorea]

for 3600 you could definitively build or get a top end pc; on the other hand I don't think you could build 7 good mb computer for that. Yesterday I almost pulled the trigger on a config in my newegg shopping basket and it was over 1.5k - for i7, 12gb ram, nvidia 275 - good case and psu - I ended up giving up and getting a pre built gateway with 9gb of ram (crappy compared to what I had put in newegg) and only a nvidida gtx 260 which I think should be enough even for 5 boxing for 1279 as it seems it would cost me as much/more to build it myself and there is a risk I would mess up something - that's not counting the 3d vision setup I also ordered (can't wait to try wow solo in 3d)

[Tonuss]

Hot rod PCs are great until your home office turns into a home sauna.

My LCDs are responsible for global warming. :x

[Yamio]

I once spent $2500 on a pc, but that was years ago. Now I feel anything above $600-800 bucks is too much.

The older I get the cheaper I get. A couple more years and I'll be George Castanza cheap.