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Benjamin Cronin bcronin720 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 22:03:47 BST 2021
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:32 AM defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote:
1) Manufacturing a new computer is significantly more power intensive.
2) Electronic waste is bad.
3) "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle". First two R's are very important...
Agreed.
How about keeping most of the part and changing only the power intensive CPU? :-)
The power needed to manufacture the components of a new computer aremuch higher than the power needed to run an old one for many manyyears. No matter how many watts your CPU draws (the Intel LGA775 Xeondraws 120W, half of their modern high end desktop chips), it won'tmatch the power draw of silicon fabs. And also the challenges ofworking with old hardware and modern software/protocols can be fun.