pc = £3 a day
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Soldato
How much you paying per kwh?
I guess thats drawing roughly 700w, I get charged 10p per kWh (which is cheap) so it would be about £1.70 a day + general other house usage of about 70-100p per day. It sounds about right.
I guess thats drawing roughly 700w, I get charged 10p per kWh (which is cheap) so it would be about £1.70 a day + general other house usage of about 70-100p per day. It sounds about right.
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Ivy hardly uses anything, 77w so that's like leaving a lightbulb on. I'd stop those cards and just fold smp on the cpu. What I do, no need for that cost in electricity, not to mention the cost to the environment 
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Well in winter turn the heating off and use them so it'll work out as cost efficient!
Absolutely. My two rigs (4 GPUs) kept me warm through the whole winter, never needed to turn the heating on at all.
Snow? What snow
Soldato
I cant remember if I asked this before but ... I don't have a traditional hard drive in here, will folding thrash my SSD?
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Don't think folding uses more than a few mbs. Certainly doesn't take up much space on my ssd and doesn't interact with my hdds.
Soldato
You either have a very expensive electricity supplier or you are working it out wrong, remember to calculate it on the 2nd tier per unit rate, not the first, the first price per <whatever> units is generally meaningless as you will always go over it whether you fold or not. I pay 10.8p per KW/h on the second tier, in order to use £3 worth in 24Hrs I would have to draw 1157W continuously from the wall. That's just not possible with an i5 Ivy and 2 gtx 470s.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-003-EN
One of these will give you a fairly accurate running cost.
One of these will give you a fairly accurate running cost.
Soldato
I shall install then. Space isnt the issue, I use very few apps and use NAS for media files.
Soldato
£3 per day definately does not sound right i run 5 x 480s and am on a key meter that racks up 2.77 ish per day and that includes household electrics .... thats a thought could start growing exotic plants indoors year round 
Soldato
That's your problem. Think of the transport costs!
You must have calculated something wrong. Any other thirsty appliances?
dryer is used sometimes
nothing on really apart from tv /fridgefreezer / washing machine once or twice a day
Do you mean the kind of prepay meter where you take the key down to the corner shop to add more money? The rates on those are significantly higher than a normal meter and direct debit.
Renting a house last year I asked the landlord if we could put in a normal meter, she agreed and BG did it for free, then we switched suppliers immediately
Renting a house last year I asked the landlord if we could put in a normal meter, she agreed and BG did it for free, then we switched suppliers immediately
Soldato
Yeah for folding you definitely want to get yourself on a decent tarrif if you can. I had a great one with npower signonline 21. The first x amount was quite expensive for leccy but after that it dropped right down to 8p I think it was. Gas wasn't the cheapest but I rarely needed to put the central heating on!