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Calculating the Total Cost of Ownership

Posted by Ted Pollak on November 30th 2010 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, General Interest
Tags: gpu tco energy efficiency graphics processors total cost of ownership

The other day Jon was (halfway) joking that modern enthusiast GPU’s should be measured in horsepower, as they now consume about 1/3rd HP on the high end. This got me to thinking of a computer system expense evaluation tool I started working on a few years ago named RealCost. This tool could be used for just about anything electronic and is intended to estimate the total cost of ownership of a device based on its initial expense and the power it consumes. Consumer adjustable variables include average hours use per day, load weighting, planned life, and local energy expense. It is…