PC running costs

I used to, when I could spend more than an hour a day at my PC.

Then I built three rigs for my kids, which are on whenever they're not sleeping or at school...

...now I absolutely refuse to look at the meter and just silently sob whenever Eon take their Direct Debit.
 
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Let me know where and I'll come and visit
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Volunteering my services - just in case the world's most.fantasy audio kit miraculously manifests, then it might be sensible to test the subwoofer spike on someone with paraparesis...
 
Don't really care about how much power my PC consumes.

I'm in the twilight of my life and have other things to worry about! :p
 
As others have said a smart plug with energy monitoring or a plug in meter connected between your 44way mains adaptor and the PC etc will tell you how much it uses in terms of energy.

My PC tends to use about 95 watts (including monitor) sat on the forums etc and that's an I7 12th gen (about 18 months old), with 64gb of ram, a couple of rusting disks and a trio of solid state drives.
 
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As others have said a smart plug with energy monitoring or a plug in meter connected between your 44way mains adaptor and the PC etc will tell you how much it uses in terms of energy.

My PC tends to use about 95 watts (including monitor) sat on the forums etc and that's an I7 12th gen (about 18 months old), with 64gb of ram, a couple of rusting disks and a trio of solid state drives.
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The same pretty much (85w-95w); i7 12700k, 32GB RAM, 9070XT, 1x 2TB HDD and 4 NvMEs + a 27" 1440 monitor. Saying that though my electricity bill has gone down recently by a few quid since I have started gaming on a Steam Deck a lot of the time (when the i7 kicks off gaming it can be >350w total load).
 
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Less than it used to be years back. Hardware is much better at conserving energy now and much less reliance on mechanical drives has made a noticable difference.
 
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my UPS says 3.34kwh average since the 1st april.
cummaltive 53.4kwh

2.05kwh per day based on the current year so far, crimson desert pushed me up a lot recently

Pc usually on and idle if I'm awake

thats based on pc+1monitor seems to idle around 150-170watts when I'm browsing the web. (less if I turn my monitors hdr off I think by about 30watt)

Its really not that expensive to leave a pc on.
 
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Werewolf said:
As others have said a smart plug with energy monitoring or a plug in meter connected between your 44way mains adaptor and the PC etc will tell you how much it uses in terms of energy.

My PC tends to use about 95 watts (including monitor) sat on the forums etc and that's an I7 12th gen (about 18 months old), with 64gb of ram, a couple of rusting disks and a trio of solid state drives.
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Thing is, I haven't got a pc yet. Just wondering what the usage is regarding electric.
 
hornetstinger said:
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Insert toe ;)
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Can you at least hoover up first, I don't want crumbs or whatever that is under my feet.

Also post a better picture as my Google lens thinks that's an edifier T5.

Anyways enough off topic - post a nice pic in the home cinema thread please
 
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