FRONTPAGE How Much Does It Cost To Run Your PC?

Do you know how much it costs to run your PC each month? Until recently, I didn't. In the past, I had speculated that running my PC 24/7 may cost about 10 dollars per month. However, with increasing fuel/electricity prices, my new estimation may surprise you.

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You guys may have seen this before, but we've gone back and updated this article with current hardware, energy prices, etc.
Take a look and let us know how much your system costs to run each month. Mine is about $12 per month.

Interesting but I think its better I never know how much my computers cost to run.

I'm guesstimating ~$5ish, maybe $6 for my desktop. I pay a bit more than the article - little over 16 cents per kwh. Currently my UPS is reporting it at 130w with one monitor (LG 27UK670) and the desktop at a mild load (twitch stream and web browsing). Added another 50w for the second monitor.

I don't run it 24/7. don't even put it to sleep - full shutdown at night and during the week I don't even turn it back on till I get home from work, so it probably puts in a standard 40 hour work week.

And after doing all that I remembered the CPU's been running at stock for the past month, lol. I'll try to swing back to update after I reset everything.

I want to run mine off solar. I can't wait to retire my desktop. I guarantee the smaller footprint and fewer em's will be felt in a good way.
I have no idea what the actual cost is but I only know it could be less.

The two variations I made from the article:

1. Substituted Furmark for 3DMark Firestrike Ultra
2. For the Game I used Half-Life:ALYX (VR)

Test Configuration




You can really see the difference Furmark makes on the power draw.

EDIT: Re-running the CPU/GPU test to verify results. Pretty surprised ALYX was nearly twice the power draw.

2 PC's below 4 GPU's total 24/7 fah=I don't even want to know ...I'll guess at $90 but my electric bill is about $175 per month on average which includes an electric heat pump. My wife also has the TV on 20 hours a day.

It's sad but that is one my smaller bills...

Looks like I’m still not caring about power draw. I was aways the “60 fps in Crysis 3 minimum regardless of anything else” crowd tbh