The little northbridge fan in the Atom server started to make a loud noise, having finally worn out, so I had to kludge it with a spare until the replacement fan turned up. It's made by a company called Scythe and has the somewhat odd name of Ultra-Kaze, but it is much quiet than the old one ever was, and has four pretty blue LEDs in it. So that's nice. I managed to install it without shutting it all down. While it's one physical machine, it's running ESXi with a few virtual machines and restarting them all is a pain.
One of the VMs has been crunching away at Folding @ Home for a few months now and is ranked 370,046 out of 1,415,485 contributors. The Atom isn't the best CPU for this but it is very low power, using 8w if both cores are maxed out, although the F@H VM is only using one core. The board does have a power hungry chipset though and it's got two 3.5" hard drives, so I'm guessing it's probably using about 100w.
It's been a long day, tired now. Took the dog for a walk after work in the beautiful sunshine, and then had a nice long go on Red Dead Redemption with Will again, which was fun. It works really well I think.
Sold another batch of Psions, this time they went for £140 which was pretty good, so packaged them up today ready to be posted tomorrow.
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