Sorry Apis, I was just being lazy with my typing. I simply meant that I've set the ACPI S3 sleep to 60 minutes and I usually just walk away rather than hit the standby button on my keyboard. Amazingly (for someone who remembers the early days of ACPI) it actually resumes from sleep, despite the fact that I'm running Linux

I do hear you on the energy debate and run less hardware in the summer but I am kind of hooked, I joined through the Ripple crypto currency WCG tie-up and then my dad got cancer (just had 5 year all clear). I love the *excuse* to buy new bits and do geeky stuff with config.
If the heat from the Ryzen means burning less gas and your electric supply is from 'renewables' then maybe it's not such a terrible idea. There are rumours of climate related projects coming up hopefully soon too, would be nice to heat the house on irony . So far I've not turned the heating on, just moved PC's around, down to 3 now and 675w output which should be ok for Autumn.


Yes let's stick to the easy stuff like diseases and climate change.

Happy weekend all.

I have found that by not using hyper-threading, I use less electricity and get the same amount of work done. So that is what I'm doing.

My threadripper system was using about 360watts per hour with 32 threads, currently using about 250watts with 16 threads, that is a big difference.

Sounds cool, if you could somehow store the heat generated it's kind of an Economy 7 style set-up but driven by market forces rather than cheap overnight oversupply, maybe 'charge up' a thermal mass during low cost periods for use later on that might work. Do the rates fluctuate much?

Re. points per KWH, I make mine 53k (points) per KWH, at 13p per KWH ... no I'm not going there.
Hoping to switch to some 7nm AMD kit soon, selling off 14nm gear on Ebay, had to let a 28thread 2648L v4 system go for less than £200 recently, thought the bidding would be much stronger, I guess there's not much market for engineering samples.