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How much of your electric bill is your pc?
- Thread starter Fighter2a
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I calculated mine and for 12 hrs a day, for 1 month was $5.22. That is assuming my monitor is on the entire time my computer is on.
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I calculated mine and for 12 hrs a day, for 1 month was $5.22. That is assuming my monitor is on the entire time my computer is on.
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well lets say a high end PC actualy uses 400 watts continuous....which is pretty high really.
say 12 hours per day, 30 days a month thats 144kwh....I think I pay around 6.5 cents per kwh, so that's around 9 bucks a month...not bad when you compare that to an AC unit or refridgerators.
say 12 hours per day, 30 days a month thats 144kwh....I think I pay around 6.5 cents per kwh, so that's around 9 bucks a month...not bad when you compare that to an AC unit or refridgerators.
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probably not. 400 watts its very high. My system with a 17inch crt on consumes about 270 watts, about 80 of which is the monitor, and I have 2 hdd's and 2 optical drives.
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I have a ups that tells me in its software how much power is hooked up to the actual battery back up plugs. Just because you have an xxx watt power supply doesn't mean you are using all of that. There needs to be a bit of overhead.
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I'm averaging about $25 per month increase when my main's on 24/7. But then again most people don't juggle 5 internal hard drives, 2 printers, and enough USB cable to completely wire up the Empire building. 
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4ghz...that's kinda hard to say unless that's in the winter when using propane for heat...cuz in the summer with AC it's always changing and fluxuating.
top of the line w/o video card
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050509/cual_core_athlon-19.html
HDD consumption
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/perf/spec/otherPower.html
Video card (ati's)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-powercons_4.html
LCD (19")
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824179014
CRT (17")
http://windows.uwaterloo.ca/Hardware/PC_Power_Consumption.asp
Just some random numbers I put together....as you can see computers don't draw that much really. Now, OCing them doesn't have a large increase in energy, but upping the voltage does. If you use watercooling and go hard on the chips and video card your looking at about another 100 watts.
phase changers....that's probably like running 4 stock computers if not more.
top of the line w/o video card
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050509/cual_core_athlon-19.html
HDD consumption
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/perf/spec/otherPower.html
Video card (ati's)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-powercons_4.html
LCD (19")
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824179014
CRT (17")
http://windows.uwaterloo.ca/Hardware/PC_Power_Consumption.asp
Just some random numbers I put together....as you can see computers don't draw that much really. Now, OCing them doesn't have a large increase in energy, but upping the voltage does. If you use watercooling and go hard on the chips and video card your looking at about another 100 watts.
phase changers....that's probably like running 4 stock computers if not more.
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Fighter2a said:Thanks guys. I pay 12.1 cents per kilowatt hour
Be glad you don't live in NYC. I'm paying $0.13/kwh. My computers account for about 80% of my electric bill.
