On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:
to be honest - the energy these old machines have wasted the last years could have payed recent hardware and the combination of a bleeding edge distribution and more than a decade old hardware is questionable

That is definitely true for the Athlon MP system, just the cooling fans require ~60 Watts. On the other hand, the PIII functions as a file/vpn/ftp server and usually draws about 20W.