overclockers.com— Most people speculate that running my PC 24/7 may cost about 10 dollars per month. However, with increasing fuel / electricity prices, this new estimation may surprise you.
Sep 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
This is just a theoretical. If you have his exact setup, with the monitors on all the time, running UT2004 or a benchmark utility, you will get similar results. Yes, you will most likely have a lower consumption in real life, but he's saying theoretical.
"Also depends on how much you're paying for electricity..Up here in Quebec we have way too much power from Hydro Electricity.. I end up paying about 3-4 cents (CAD) per hour.. hehI have 4 computers on all the time with several external devices and i still only pay about $30/month (total)."god i hate Bush
I bought a Kill-A-Watt power meter and spent months moving it around my house to see how much different things used. It includes both a Watt meter and a cumulative KWHour timer. <a class="user" href="http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html">http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html</a>We pay 11 cents per KWHour as the baseline. Here are my results (yearly costs assume the same usage 24 hours every single day a year):IBM Thinkpad T43 with Pentium Mobile 2.00GHz:22 Watts when idle, but display and drive powered up ($22.04/year).14 Watts when idle with display and drive powered down ($14.03/year).Dell 19" P992 Monitor: 121.5 Watts ($121.73/year)Pentium 133 MHz firewall, single IDE drive: 36 Watts ($36.07/year)Early 1990's vintage Refrigerator: ($107.73/year)Wall Air Freshener: ($1.45/year)Dishwasher, Normal-HighTemp, with hot water at tap: 15 cents per load.
Inaccurate. how can you mark hard unarguable accurate "facts" as inaccurate ? not applicable maybe (who the hell pays 12cents a kwh ?? ouch !)My server which runs sage tv to record my TV shows I built specifically for low power consumption. it consumes an average idling even while recording of 74watts of power. I figure it cost me about $3 a month to run it. I dont count the LCD since its almost never on. it just sits there and "runs" recording my shows (4 tuners)I have also replaced as many of my lights as I can with LED lights. for basic see aroundlighting my room consumes about 4 watts of power. when I need to actually see something I turn on the halogen floor lamp with a half power bulb at half strength. so about 80watts of power when needed and it illuminates the whole room.I want to build a multi buld led lamp to light the whole room but I need 10 of them and they are $40 a pop :-(
Man, this is f**king old and all...and no one will read this. But I just have to let you know...since you don't already. Any X86 ("IBM Compatible") based system is a PC. Most computers running Linux are PCs. Sorry if I threw you off there...you obviously a f**king tool.Oh wait...I already mentioned that...sorry.
Closed AccountSep 24, 2006
that is the stupidest f**king thing ive ever heard, iamcitizen
neatfluxSep 24, 2006
inkysplat, that made no sense. Changing clockspeed?When you wake up you'll be just as confused.
bigbrother87Sep 24, 2006
This is just a theoretical. If you have his exact setup, with the monitors on all the time, running UT2004 or a benchmark utility, you will get similar results. Yes, you will most likely have a lower consumption in real life, but he's saying theoretical.
theriaaSep 24, 2006
"Also depends on how much you're paying for electricity..Up here in Quebec we have way too much power from Hydro Electricity.. I end up paying about 3-4 cents (CAD) per hour.. hehI have 4 computers on all the time with several external devices and i still only pay about $30/month (total)."god i hate Bush
pshumanSep 24, 2006
I bought a Kill-A-Watt power meter and spent months moving it around my house to see how much different things used. It includes both a Watt meter and a cumulative KWHour timer. <a class="user" href="http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html">http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html</a>We pay 11 cents per KWHour as the baseline. Here are my results (yearly costs assume the same usage 24 hours every single day a year):IBM Thinkpad T43 with Pentium Mobile 2.00GHz:22 Watts when idle, but display and drive powered up ($22.04/year).14 Watts when idle with display and drive powered down ($14.03/year).Dell 19" P992 Monitor: 121.5 Watts ($121.73/year)Pentium 133 MHz firewall, single IDE drive: 36 Watts ($36.07/year)Early 1990's vintage Refrigerator: ($107.73/year)Wall Air Freshener: ($1.45/year)Dishwasher, Normal-HighTemp, with hot water at tap: 15 cents per load.
nerysSep 24, 2006
Inaccurate. how can you mark hard unarguable accurate "facts" as inaccurate ? not applicable maybe (who the hell pays 12cents a kwh ?? ouch !)My server which runs sage tv to record my TV shows I built specifically for low power consumption. it consumes an average idling even while recording of 74watts of power. I figure it cost me about $3 a month to run it. I dont count the LCD since its almost never on. it just sits there and "runs" recording my shows (4 tuners)I have also replaced as many of my lights as I can with LED lights. for basic see aroundlighting my room consumes about 4 watts of power. when I need to actually see something I turn on the halogen floor lamp with a half power bulb at half strength. so about 80watts of power when needed and it illuminates the whole room.I want to build a multi buld led lamp to light the whole room but I need 10 of them and they are $40 a pop :-(
rh387Sep 24, 2006
i say bull. i have no less than 3 computers on 24/7 and it doesnt cost nearly as much. also, the displays can be shut off when you are not using them.
misanthropeOct 11, 2006
Man, this is f**king old and all...and no one will read this. But I just have to let you know...since you don't already. Any X86 ("IBM Compatible") based system is a PC. Most computers running Linux are PCs. Sorry if I threw you off there...you obviously a f**king tool.Oh wait...I already mentioned that...sorry.