Pc electricity usage

[DeathWish]

My mother is constantly complaining about my pc being on all night and that it takes a lot of power.

How can you measure how much electricity your pc uses?

I have a normal Core2Duo system with 550W Gigabyte PSU and 4850 GPU.
I also have 3 hard drives.

Can anybody give some input regarding this topic?

Thanks

[drakcore]

You probably using anything from 250W during idle to 450W when you playing games.
Say to your mom your burning 3 100W light bulbs :P

[DeathWish]

I dont think she will be to happy with that.
So I take it I'm using 250w per hour on idle(downloading) and 450w per hour while gaming?

so then it will be 1kW every 4 hours.
6kW's a day
186kW's per month.
Lets add an extra 100 just for because I do some gaming, but not much.

Now, who knows how much 1kW cost?
Otherwise I must go search for the Eskom bill.

[TAZZ69ER]

man just tell her it uses less than a lightbulb that is used for a day...my pc stays on for 24/7 and i dont see a diff in my bill

[SupaNova5k]

1kWh costs R0.7737

So 286kWh pm will be costing you R221.28pm

[DeathWish]

ouch. lets just not show my mother shis. Otherwise I will have to be paying towards the eskom bill.

[pilgrim]

1kWh costs R0.7737

So 286kWh pm will be costing you R221.28pm

My PC has 4 drives also on 24/7.

It has to be less than 286kWh, since my monthly electricity bill is around R250 - R280, including lights, geyser, stove, fridge, another computer, etc.

[DeathWish]

Our electricity bill comes to R1000.
And it's just me and my mother in the house. And my brother and his wife in the flat.
And we have a gas stove.

So something must be wrong.

[Stolla]

Correct...an Ave PC uses about R200p/m on the new ESKOM rates. Thats not those with this fancy GFX cards that dimms the lights everytime you plant a BOMB in COD. Deal with it or get an ETRAY from scoop to do all your downloads 24/7 and switch your PC on only if you need it.

[solo7]

ask your brother to turn their electric heater or blanket off.

[DeathWish]

Hahaha.
We don't own any heaters.
And their electric blanket are those low power ones.
If my mother complains again, I will just give her R100 to keep her quiet.