Power usage with 4770k+290 or 780?

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Hi bit of a strange question, just wondered does anyone have a power wattage monitor plug, and a 4770k with 290 or 780 gpu?

Was wondering if someone could test or know what roughly the idle and max use (gaming) watts usage was ?

Cheers
 
Got a 4770k @4.5ghz here with a stock gtx 780 wf x3, at idle my power monitor plug is showing 134w total system draw including monitor. Iirc in games its 360w, (will confirm after by playing something).
 
thanks setter 134 watts is not too bad at all, I am hitting around 120-130 with a Core i5-2500 system with basic 1gig card atm with monitor, games wise hits only 170-200 but limited badly by the basic 1gig gpu :p

Would appreciated a confirmation on the gaming usage still, thx

Will check that vid out also!
 
390w playing bf4, (360w is my other system). Rig in sig along with 1 250gb ssd, 1x 1TB hdd, 1x 750gb hdd and 6x 120mm case/cooler fans. Power used by the system will be a bit less due to the efficiency rating of the psu, though this hx 850 im using is well over 4 years old now.
 
Always been mighty curious of power readings these 290s look very hot and power hungry, will need to check mine one time also.
 
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No probs, i have the pc and monitor plugged into it all the time, bit of a hassle getting to the wall socket below my desk, so the unit i use makes things a lot easier, (5 plug sockets on it). Very useful when adding external hdd's etc.
 
Mines a bit higher than Setter's. Spec in siggy, gpu not overclocked and water cooling has it's own psu so not included in total. Power at the wall:-

Idle 142w (vcore no longer drops at idle since bios update :mad:)
100% CPU load (linx) 267w
100% gpu load (furmark) 432w
100% load cpu and gpu (linx and furmark together) 521w
Gaming 320w-445w depending on the game.
 
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Mines a bit higher than Setter's. Spec in siggy, gpu not overclocked and water cooling has it's own psu so not included in total. Power at the wall:-

Idle 142w (vcore no longer drops at idle since bios update :mad:)
100% CPU load (linx) 267w
100% gpu load (furmark) 432w
100% load cpu and gpu (linx and furmark together) 521w
Gaming 320w-445w depending on the game.
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That idle (and 100% cpu load) seems rather high even with speedstep disabled. You got anything else connected to the power meter?
 
Nope. Idle is only 8w higher than Setters i7 though. All power saving is enabled it's just that the last bios update broke it and won't lower the voltage at idle any more even though the clocks drop to 800mhz. I also have 4x sticks of ram and my 780 is not a reference card.
 
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Nope. Idle is only 8w higher than Setters i7 though. All power saving is enabled it's just that the last bios update broke it and won't lower the voltage at idle any more even though the clocks drop to 800mhz. I also have 4x sticks of ram and my 780 is not a reference card.
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His idle (and load) includes a monitor and its a pretty power hungry one if I remember correctly. You must have something else except the pc connected or do those pumps consume a lot of power? I'd expect your system to use about 140w with the cpu fully loaded.
 
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Sorry, also a monitor, HannsG HZ281 and a set of Logitech X540 5.1 speakers too. Thought they were on a seperate lead but they are not. Water pumps are powered by their own little psu and are on a seperate socket. The 50Z's consume a tiny fraction of the power pumps use now as well.
 
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setter said:
No probs, i have the pc and monitor plugged into it all the time, bit of a hassle getting to the wall socket below my desk, so the unit i use makes things a lot easier, (5 plug sockets on it). Very useful when adding external hdd's etc.
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thanks much appreciated the check on that. I have 10 gang way towers handy, makes life so much easier. Also I can plug in my power reader monitor into one wall socket and work out a bit easier what uses what watts.

I rechecked my 2500 rigg with just the 1gig basic card, my 24inch monitor hits roughly 50watts and pc about 60watts so about 110 and 120ish with HD content and bit more maxxed out surfing/multitasking to about 120-130 watts.

Pushing it with prime/furmark and I hit 180watts.

I guess with a 4770k + 290k I may hit 460-500watts during gaming.
 
By any off chance does anyone notice massive electricity bills with these power hungry systems ?

Or any other things that may help reduce power consumption ?
I hear some guys running a corsair 450watt p/s running 780 cards even.... although no idea if that would really affect wattage.

Really looking forward to Nvidias next gen gpu lol
 
This system is way less power demanding than some ive ran lately. Used to have sli 670's in the rig in sig, 586w running 3dm11 but that pales into insignifigance compared to the two x58 rigs i had. Both oc'd to 4ghz and running sli 400 series gpu's. The 920 with gtx 470's drew 630w when gaming, 740w running furmark. Just for the sake of interest one day i ran p95 small fft and furmark extreme burn simultaneously, stopped it when it hit 860w on the power monitor.
 
Would be awesome to work out rough calculations, perhaps am worrying too much about my leccy bills !

On a review on an intel haswell nuc @ 15 watts running 24/7 for a week hits 50p, so £2 for a month.

My bad maths which am sure someone will correct me on ;) so roughly 500watts if gaming 24/7 for a week gets about 20 quid per week electricity bill, and so 70-80 quid roughly per month ?

Obviously no one games 24/7 so perhaps take off 20-30 quid? roughly £50 per month of electricity bill....

Actually that is not too bad, obviously an intel nuc left on 24/7 for a month @ 2 quid can't be topped !
 
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