How much electricity your consoles use and what they cost you

[Jamie McKane]

How much electricity your consoles use and what they cost you

This is how much electricity your favourite gaming devices use and how much they cost you.

[Solitude]

That's actually a lot of money. I wonder how much my pc uses.

[Flex]

That's actually a lot of money. I wonder how much my pc uses.

Was wondering exactly the same. Actually scared to see. guess they can't really work that out, as pc components differ so much

[Avatar]

That's actually a lot of money. I wonder how much my pc uses.

Was wondering exactly the same. Actually scared to see. guess they can't really work that out, as pc components differ so much

Just... shut your eyes, and go with it. And definitely don't buy a kill-a-watt or a decent multimeter to measure it!

[Blazzok]

That's actually a lot of money. I wonder how much my pc uses.

Was wondering exactly the same. Actually scared to see. guess they can't really work that out, as pc components differ so much

I've done this exercise, I have a digital watt meter.

My pc uses 120W idle and 420W with a benchmark that pushes it to the max. When playing a game it uses about 250W (depends on the game).

This is for an i5 2500K @ 4.5ghz
P67 Motherboard
GTX 980
2 x 24" led screens
4 hdd's and 1 ssd
All the fans, peripherals and headphones

I don't think it is all that bad

[HavocXphere]

That's actually a lot of money.

Thats per YEAR and assumes 1095 hours use. Thats a rounding error in the greater scheme of things. Compare it to the cost of a cinema ticket (=2 hours entertainment for like 50 bucks).

[DarkStarZA]

For PC, using this site http://powersupplycalculator.net/

I Get Idle ~100w, Load ~460w

So lets take 3 hours gaming, 1 hour idle per day. Simplifying things a bit, this gives me 1480w used per day. 1.48kW x R1.20 (price per kW) = R1,78 per day.
R1,78 x 365 = ~R650 per year.

Not cheap belonging to the master race.

[Apollo]

Quick calc on my setup.





Probably half that though. The PC idles more than half that time period.

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I never turn my PC off

[Crableg]

Yeah my PC stays on always =/ just goes into sleep mode after awhile