Phuncz Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 As my big and heavy computer (Overclocked Core 2 Duo, 4 HDD's, 2 watercooling setups and much more) is easily chuggin' down many many watts per day/night, maybe it's time for a smaller and a lot less power consuming box to do the job. After all, it doesn't require all those gigahertzes of power to torrent.So what I was pondering about is this, I have many options: - Mac Mini. Costs about 600€. Fast, reliable, extremely small and very low on power usage (about 30W playing a DVD). Although pretty expensive. - Acer AcerPower 2000. Costs about 500€. Pretty fast, very small, easily upgradable and pretty low on power (90W max, typical 50W ?). Still, pretty expensive. - Self Built System. Costs about 250€. Fast, quite small, easily upgradeable but uses more power (my guess: about 100W). I put together an AMD Sempron 64 2800+, 512MB DDR2, compact case and a mATX Asrock motherboard. The rest I have lying around...So what would you do ? It's purely for running multiple torrents (10 max), it'll be run through the web interface on another computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phuncz Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Never mind, I bought the Mac Mini. My boss gave me a discount for it (400 € for the Core Solo) and it seemed like the best choice at hand ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 You could have bought a second hand PC somewhere for a couple of dollars. As long as you always close µtorrent gracefully and don't have to reseed torrents (and ur not an uploader) it should be able to handle µtorrent just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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