How much is your PC costing you in electricity?

[Quartz]

I've just run the numbers on my PC usage.

My PC uses about 300W on the desktop. That's a PC, peripherals, 3 monitors, network switch, and router. You can add another up to 350W when gaming. I'm paying 31.49p per kWh. So my PC use is about 10p / hour normally when not asleep and about 20p per hour when gaming.

My server & NAS & their switches use 163W. So 5.13p per hour, and £1.23 per day, £449.64 per year.

Both costs are not large, IMHO.

 

[JonRGV250]

When gaming, around 23p/hour.
Nothing too much to worry about.

 

[Haz123]

I am home most of the day on the PC. Whilst I am in on my own I do not have the heating on and the office I am in is heated by the PC, when I open the door that heat spreads around the house and is not wasted.

In the winter months I do not count the energy used by this PC as anything other than needed heating.

 

[dave28]

not sure exactly but i try to reduce cost now.

my GPU alone can use 330w.

but with monitoring software i found that in a game like Halo Infinite my GPU used 330w with 4K Ultra.
however, with the 60fps limit setting selected the power reduced to only 130 watts.

i could not see any real worthwhile difference between the two settings but the power saving is massive.

 

[rumple9]

mines not too bad around 200w but Ive got cpu and gpu undervolted which saves a lot - especially with the gpu when gaming at 4k. Performance hit isnt too bad. Also cut my screen refresh from 120hz to 60hz

 

[robj20]

You have to factor in the heating as well, this time of year it's a useful side effect.

 

[Meddling-Monk]

Hmmm, I think we pay 28.88p for electricity here for each kwh. The new system is currently needing to be broken in, undervolts need to be applied etc, but need to be done via the BIOS which I can't do at the moment until new monitor arrives. Currently, assuming I remember to do so, Eco Mode 65W means the PC pulls around 90-100W of added power once it starts up. If I forget to do so, it pulls a lot more. But the 65W is fine by me for now anyway. But that means my PC is costing me 2.6p roughly per hour in the lower power modes, rising up to around 3p per hour when under load. Not including anything else. Once I cinlude GPYU useage for games, then that hits another 185W odd, so that then means I'm using 275W total, and then it goes to almost 8p per hour to run.

 

[Defy Belief]

About 15-20w as been using an Intel NUC with GFN so not an awful lot...26.53p/kWh, so even if I gamed 24/7 for a whole year the annual cost is still only around £46.

Realistically I probably game about 5 hours a week right now, which is £1.35 for the year based on that.

 

[therealdippy]

I have worked from home for many years so I'm used to higher energy costs and I was expecting prices to rise even before the war. I get the feeling that it has come as a surprise to some people after working from home during covid and then not wanting to return to a daily commute that their energy costs have gong up so much!

I really do not get the regional variation in price. Now that we have a cap electricity prices are defined by the most expensive form of generation which is currently gas-powered. We all pay that higher price even if we live in the part of the UK where generation is dominated by wind. So there is no justification for a price variation. If there are regional differences in the cost of maintaining the network then these should come through the daily rate we pay. But we should all be paying the same price per kWh.

 

[boabs]

not too much maybe 3 bucks day 2060 super 10400f

 

[Milo01]

When jzst watching videos on yuotube/twitch using around 150w with dual monitor setup, while gaming around 300-350w

 

[FredFlint]

I have gone from using 2 pc's to just using one with 2 displays. I also use ECO mode for the CPU and under-volt the GPU to reduce the power but don’t know how much it costs per-hour. The way things are going it will be cheaper to game at an arcade than at home, if arcades are still a thing.

 

[Semple]

When I was gaming earlier my whole office was consuming about 350w so similar pricing to yours.

 

[Orcvader]

Roughly ~20p an hour while gaming with my undervolt profile, after subtracting everything else. So on a work day easily less than a pound. Although I've been using it less now thanks to the Steam Deck.

 

[Mr Mcgoo]

Taking both monitors into account (25watts each) at idle, 140watts (4.8p per hour). When gaming, between 180 and 320 watts (5.5-10.7p per hour). Full system load (cinebench r23 and 3dmark port royal together) 450watts (14.4p per hour). Average per day switching from gaming to movies/youtube, around 200watts per hour (6.7p per hour) over 12 hours per day 2000watts (67.8p per day and £247 per year)