Hey there!

I finally found ya.
Where I live, electricity cost about 50% more than what U said a few post b4.
Thats why I am thinking on dismantling all my P3s and AthlonXPs...
I kinda like my P3 800, coz its hee with me everyday for like 7years now, but I pay the price of a new puter in a year I guess if I keep for much longer.
BTW, I just let my C2Q6600 loose on BOINC yesterday, keep checkin how my score will change?

Yes, the Q6600 vortex, MUHAHAHAHAHAHA. Im running power tests across a wide range of systems here. Every class of processor from 500mhz to the Q6600. The objective is to plot when it is the best to upgrade, based on the power costs. I have to do this if I want to expand, as the whole place I live in only has one 15amp breaker.

This means that if I want to use the microwave, I better figure this out soon.

I don't want to seem like a smart @ss, but are you absolutely sure that there is only one breaker? The reason I ask is that until recently I lived in a fairly small apartment - around 6 or 7 hundred sq. feet (including closets and interior walls). It was also really old - built in the late 40's. To give you an idea, the wiring was copper covered with an asbestos impregnated cloth mesh. I still can't belief the place never burned down. Anyway, even that apartment had 3 15amp lines. Another place was about 400 sq ft and had 2 lines (with a 220volt line in the basement). Even the attic apartment I had when I was in school had 2 lines - and that was just 2 tent-shaped rooms with a bathroom.

Plus you should have at least one line just for the kitchen. If you really do only have the one line, then it has to be some kind of code violation and your landlord should get his/her crusty bvtt in gear and get you up to code.

I hope there's a special place in hell for landlords who charge top prices for rent and don't even give tenants the basics. If you were in NJ I'd say you should stop paying rent until the problem is fixed since the lack of adequate electrical service should be considered a breach of the warranty of habitability.

Now I'm really steamed!!!

When I bought this house, the entire thing ran off 2-30 amp screw in fuses.
It used to be a rooming house and had 10 bedrooms.
I have rewired (over 400' of wire) and now have a 200A main breaker panel and grounded outlets/switches in every room.
They had NO dryer in here before and used a clothesline.
There was 220V service to the meter, but only 110V came to the fuse panel. I had to run new cable from the meter to the new breaker box to have 220V service.
The previous wiring was the 'knob & tube' type with ceramic/glasss insulators and the cloth clad wires run about 6" apart and twisted/cloth taped connections at every junction.
That type of wiring wasn't as much of a hazard as you might expect because it was kept separate and used the ceramic/glass insulators.
Even if the insulation was knocked off, it wasn't close enough to the other wires (except right at the plug/switch) to cause a short.

True, my first apartment was about 180 sq. ft.
AND I had to share the bathroom with 2 other apartments... LOL