Did some "power at the plug" tests today

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Q6600, P5B, 4 gig RAM, etc

Q6600 @ 3.125 gig - 1.3875 Vcore

Small Orthos = 300W

Q6600 @ 3.3 gig - 1.46 Vcore

Small Orthos = 320W

Q6600 @ 3.55 gig - 1.565 Vcore

Small Orthos = 370W


I was quite shocked at 300W + for just base-unit - jumped up to 420W with the 3.125 gig under Othos (with GPU under load too)

I'm going to leave it at lower overclock = 3.55 gig -is a bit quicker but not noticeable in anything other than benchmarks

70W is a lot of extra electricity when I leave it on overnight quite a bit encoding (and running Prime95 lol !!)

Vcores are "bios" settings not actual

Mark.
 
Good work

Ive wanted to see how much wattage a system similar to mine uses.

I think ill keep my 3.11ghz and not push it for the sake of my electricity bill!
 
I certainly won't be leaving my PC on during the day !

and not so sure that I care abour 14 hr stress primes now !! they cost quite a bit lol !
 
crazyDAJT ... thats the joy I don't ... I turn it off at the switch on the bottom - as I'm always freaked the cats may sit on the remote and turn it on during the day ...

I was sure the Plasma was 400W + , and deffo worse offender vs the PC - but I was way wrong
 
now experimenting with 3.19 gig @ 1.35Vcore .... (1.27 actual)

heck those Dual-core Wolfdales are looking more and more appealing ! I wonder what the difference in power would be quite a lot I suppose
 
Did anyone see it on Dragons Den when the hopeful pitched his "invention" that claimed a PC drew the same amount of Power on Standby as it did when up and running?,now i`m no expert,but that has to be BS surely.

Edit- Excuse my ignorance on this,but i`m curious to know how much power we all do actually use
 
Paolo said:
Did anyone see it on Dragons Den when the hopeful pitched his "invention" that claimed a PC drew the same amount of Power on Standby as it did when up and running?,now i`m no expert,but that has to be BS surely.
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nope.

They said that some TV's draw the same power when on standby as they do when on, which sounds unlikely but not unfeasible
 
well as i type t his my system in my sig including my monitor is comsuming a wopping 138 watts lol :D. i cant tell you what it uses at load though as i dont have one of them plug things, instead i have a large ups that shows you the power draw. and i have everything plugged into it.

k uses 155 watts on a super pi 1million run.
 
allways wondered what imine uses when gaming but cant check unless i had a second screen with the ups software on that one as i gamed. anyone wanna lend me screen ? lol
 
OP what graphics do you have? how many HDDs/opticals/PCI cards do you have? Just trying to imagine how much my B3 Q6600 3.33Ghz 1.44V is consuming..

oh the joy of all inclusive rent :D
 
the question is, if you have any of the billion encoding applications that can trigger your system to turn off after its finished, will it use more power at 300W taking longer, or more power at 370W but taking less time. Hard to tell take some numbers down for difference in time on an encode in both settings and check, also do a test against stock. the biggest difference is coming from the voltage increase as opposed to the clock, so the 3.1Ghz without much of a vcore increase but a pretty large overclock is likely to be pretty efficient.

I have two systems, one with a lower power gpu, enough cpu juice to run high def video fine and whatever. I leave everything as undervolted as possible and it tends to be left on as much for convinience as anything else, often downloads overnight too. Also better for me in summer with a south facing bedroom and flat roof above semi detached meaning at points i have 3 walls in the sun and 2 in the sun all day long, and the hot water tank. That computer runs as cool and as low power as i can. CRT's were ditched due to power and heat for same reason. My faster comp, quad core, 3870x2, etc is overclocked up the ying yang and gets turned off when i'm not using it. Hell it costs quite a bit but its easier, and also i often watch tv on the low power comp while playing a game(like an mmo or something less involving) or working, browsing web etc so 2nd comp is very useful.

seriously considering a 780g and low ish clocked phenom for the low power setup, graphically gpu should be enough for any high def stuff added to any cpu, might even go a lower power X2. Seems like a very very low at idle wattage setup, its built to be left on cheaply and give decent power when needed.
 
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