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Kirito · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:06 am Post subject: 2x pc = 2x electic bill

hi, my mom is planning to buy a new pc next month
she is worried that if there are already 2 pc's here at home,
maybe the electric bill will be doubled

Questions:
1. is there a software that tells me how much electricity is my pc consuming?
2. what should i do with my pc to decrease its electricity consumption?
3. does LCD (flat) monitor really use less electricity that the big (cube-like) monitor?

SF · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:24 am Post subject:

1. It will only double the bill if the only thing in your house running is a PC.

2 .You can open the PC and check the PSU for the amount of electricity it'll use, and a new one should/might have it on the box, turn them off at night and enable power saving when idle for > x minutes to reduce power consumption while it's being used.

3. No clue.

pkyourface · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:01 am Post subject:

LCD monitors use a lot less electricity than CRT monitors but I find that my LCD monitor gives off a fair bit of heat.

Kirito · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:02 am Post subject:

pkyourface · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:07 am Post subject:

Lol no it doesn't give out mass amounts of heat but putting your hand over top of it you can tell that it's giving some heat off. The larger the LCD the more heat it will give off and you can really notice the change if your in a enclosed room on a summer day.

Kirito · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:17 am Post subject:

i really need something that shows the PSU of my pc

iTz SWAT · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:56 am Post subject:

NINTENDO · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:04 am Post subject:

Eh? Well infact different computers does spend different amount of electricity. The max power is decied by the psu and the amount of power needed is decided by the amount of stuff you have in your computer (gpu,fans,hdd,cd-rom etc)

So it's impossible to say. Ofc it can double the bill but that would be a badass computer unless you have other stuff connectned than the computer at your home.

In general a flat screen uses less power aswell as other components different screens require differnt ammoutns of power.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:06 am Post subject:

there are electricity meters you can plug in between your computer and the electricity socket. I use one myself. E.g my comp and screen combined use idle 200Watt, and under load 500 Watt, abnd when suspended only 5 Watt

iTz SWAT · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:05 am Post subject:

Is this it?

Hero · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:41 am Post subject:

I lold.

a computer doesnt use nearly enough electricity to make the bill rise more then 20 - 30 bucks. I dont even think it will rise that much.

I have tvs running 24/7, 6 pcs, AC, and regular every day things, and the bill doesnt even exceed $400. Also, all pcs have this thing called power saving.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:46 am Post subject:

Both machines I've built for the home just put themselves into sleep if they are left alone for like 15-20 minutes. Takes just a couple seconds to get back to Windows too, so nice.

Cheetah · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:34 am Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:06 am Post subject:

Polynomial · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:10 am Post subject:

Good ones also allow you to program your electricity tariff in (i.e. $ per kWh) so that it can calculate exactly how much your PC is costing you to run per hour and how much it has cost you over the last day/week/month.

Some of them also allow you to program in tariffs that alter over the day - I think mine is around £0.125/kWh in the day, £0.095/kWh from 10pm to 5am on the Economy 7 tariff.