"My god! Do we really suck, or is this guy really that good?" - Mr Hertz - Shoot 'Em Up
Well, hell... Just lost the PSU on my server this morning. The cheapest one I've found is $100; it might as well be a $1000. Looks like I'm down 1 rig indefinitely.
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"My god! Do we really suck, or is this guy really that good?" - Mr Hertz - Shoot 'Em Up
All I did was add just one more GPU. It was showing 1000 watts, so I walked away thinking all was good. Three boxes and five gpus fell silent, so I knew something was wrong. I gave it one star in a product review for not going up in flames. Decided not to run that GPU I had just added.
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So has a hobby gone too far when you start thinking about installing an automated fire suppression system for your computers?
Edit: On a side note. We used Watts Up? Pro ES when I worked for Energy Management. They're a bit of an investment but they are durable and accurate.
"My god! Do we really suck, or is this guy really that good?" - Mr Hertz - Shoot 'Em Up
Yes, I feel nervous when everything is powered up too. I melted a service pole a year ago, that cost 2k.
Just for fun, I plugged the power cord back in the PSU on my server and it turned on. The cool thing about this PSU is that it's hot-swappable; I didn't want to turn it off so I just slide it back in its cage on the server and the rig fired up again. I don't know how long it will run but I'm sure not going to unplug it to find out.
The cage has room for one more PSU and I know something is amiss with the one I have so I'm saving my nickels and dimes to get another one. I've never seen redundant hot-swappable PSU's before; that's not really saying much but it is very cool.
"My god! Do we really suck, or is this guy really that good?" - Mr Hertz - Shoot 'Em Up