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I run rack servers at home and I 100% call BS on that 1000W number. My older Ivy Bridge Xeon servers only consume 50W on idle, 100W with some load, and <200W with all cores fired running P95 or something. The noise is a concern but it's not an issue if you put it in your basement.

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I couldn't do it with a single R420. When that first booted up in my basement - good lord I wasn't prepared. There wasn't a soul in my house who wasn't suddenly in there with me trying to understand what had just happened.

Adjusting the RPMs in software helped a little, but even at the lowest speeds, it was a hovercraft. It had to go.

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