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Old 11-04-2009, 07:02 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by tiger View Post
Why would you buy computer equipment that old? What ever money you save will get eaten up by your electric bill very quickly. Not to mention the performance. New computer equipment is already crazy cheap if you buy the right stuff.
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I'm currently looking at migrating a couple of my standard servers to a super low power Atom cluster. I've worked out the payback period (capital cost of upgrading is covered by savings in electricity) is about 2-3 years, less if I can sell off the existing equipment for a few bucks. I would ask MrMaxwell if he's interested but the oldest CPU I have here is a Q6600, circa 2007.
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