How much power does my pc use?

[nathan]

Overclocked or stock nathan?

stock. It's still rebuildin the array, but this power things says 3kwh, surely thats not right :s

 

[Allsorts]

This thread is making me feel guilty about the amount of electricity I use.

stock. It's still rebuildin the array, but this power things says 3kwh, surely thats not right :s

Maybe you need to divide the kWh figure by the amount of time passed (in hours) to give the average power the PSU is drawing? I'm really interested to see what idle/load power figures you get.

 

[nathan]

its stopped rebuilding the array now, the current reading is 135 watts. This is with folding on both cores.

With folding: 135 watts = about £10 a month

without folding: 110 watts = about £6 a month

Remember this is very rough as the power meter is only cheap, but it gives you some idea.