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Fixing the ridiculous downtime
August 16th, 2019
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As some folks may have noticed, I've had a hard time keeping this
system's uptime high lately... My CPU has a really annoying PSU that is
(HTM) incompatible with most battery backups (UPS), I do have it attached to
(HTM) hone it likes, but the batteries are OLD/worn, and expensive.
I've decided to nip the problem in the bud twofold:
First I ordered new batteries for the UPS, and I hope it fixes the UPS.
(HTM) Secondly I ordered a whole new system... A WYSE Dx0Q.
The new WYSE will draw only 7 to 15 watts from the UPS, so I'll be
extremely surprised if the UPS cannot handle it, haha. Furthermore the
WYSE has a power brick instead of a built-in PSU, there are UPSes made
(HTM) just for supplying power bricks for extended periods of time which work
a helluva lot better than traditional UPSes, so that's my backup plan.
Here's a proc comparison between the current Lenovo and the WYSE:
Lenovo WYSE
Processor Intel Pentium E2180 AMD GX-415GA
Freqency 1.2-2.0 GHz 1.5 GHz
Lithography 65nm 28nm
Cores 2 4
Threads 2 (I think) 4
L2 Cache 1 MB 2 MB
TDP 65 W 15 W
Should be interesting... I'm really digging the lower power consumption
and passive cooling.
The WYSE has 2 SATA slots (that I know of!) on the mainboard, and an
mPCIe slot... The only downsides I've noticed so far with the system are
the built-in NIC is a crappy Realtek 8111/8168/8411 and it has an LPC bus
(why the fuck ISA/LPC is still around is beyond me)...
I suppose the USB ports or the mPCIe port will make up for the crappy RTL
NIC if it gives me issues.
I'll post more on this later. Wish me luck.
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how do measure hardware draw?
Posted Sat Aug 17 01:10:38 UTC 2019 by 46.182.18.29
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I use either a Kill-a-watt EZ or the built-in power meter on my UPS
(CyberPower CP1350PFCLCD) when I do measurements myself.
Any WYSE wattages I have posted about before today came from David
Parkinson's website https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/d/dx0q/
Intel TDP numbers are from Intel ARK: https://ark.intel.com
Posted Sat Aug 17 21:15:01 UTC 2019 by zcrayfish
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please post more about this. I'm currently running a Z90 as a home
server https://grosu.nl/systems/wyse.html
Posted Mon Aug 19 00:33:52 UTC 2019 by 217.19.24.30
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Hi. I have checked your gopher.zcrayfish.soy and i see you
Posted Wed Mar 18 16:06:52 UTC 2020 by 127.0.0.1
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