Electricity used by PC?

[Kushiro]

Basically I only recently started caring about how much electricity my PC uses, now when I used the conversions I found online it sated that my pc would use about $1300 a year for 24-hour operation.

My specifications are below:

Monitor: Benq m2700hd
CPU: i7 2600k (oc'd to 5.2ghz, though will return it to stock)
M/B: Asus Maximus IV extreme-z
Memory: Kingston Hyperx 9-9-9-24 2133Mhz (2x4GB(
GPU: 2x AMD r9 290x
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 2TB
SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB
PSU: Corsair RM1000 GOLD Cert
Pump: XSPC D5 vario pump (usually at setting 3)

So could someone more experienced do a calculation for me in regards to how many kwh the entire PC including monitor would use aproximately in a year if it was on and underload 24 hours a day.

 

[Remmy]

It would be really hard to give an accurate estimate without some measurements of what your rig pulls under load. Let's say it's round about 700W, so it uses 0.7kWh per hour, which is about 6000kWh per year. Now it depends on the cost of your electricity, I think a reasonable average in the UK is about 10p/kWh, so that's about £600 a year. You can follow similar logic with your price in dollars if you wish, but if it is the same price, then that £600 is about $1000.

 

[Kushiro]

I see thx for the info Remmy

 

[theDTP]

My PC usage averages 8 hours a day so that is 2920 hours a week.

My electricity is 11.2p for 1kWh and PC uses 700w.

.112 * .7 = £0.0784 per hour *2920 = £228.93
(cost of kWh * usage = hourly cost * hours of usage = cost)

Change numbers to your own

 

[Zoot]

Example for myself:
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showpost.php?p=642899&postcount=66

My rig comes to something like €100 a year or so ie. not very much. Power consumption of your average gaming desktop is a total non-issue unless you're running the thing with 100% CPU/GPU usage 24/7 or if your electricity is like 10$/€/£ per kWhr. People make way too big a deal out of it I find.

 

[Kushiro]

yea, I was just a bit concerned, I not going to be at my residence for a while.

 

[nepas]

My PC usage averages 8 hours a day so that is 2920 hours a week.

My electricity is 11.2p for 1kWh and PC uses 700w.

.112 * .7 = £0.0784 per hour *2920 = £228.93
(cost of kWh * usage = hourly cost * hours of usage = cost)

Change numbers to your own

2920 a week? how do you do that?are you a timelord?

 

[theDTP]

2920 a week? how do you do that?are you a timelord?

ALL HAIL THE TIMELORD... Haha, I meant in one day

Haha, a year*

 

[Kushiro]

was a bit hard to take your post seriously after I read that part, was too busy laughing xD