PC Power Consumption

[Seth]

TechReviewer.com :: The Power Consumption of Modern Computers

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Would you like to elaborate Seth or was it just a concerned statement?

[petef]

Exerpt from article...

"Based on these results, we can see that the average owner of a high-end computer system spends about $100 per year in electricity bills, if the computer is left on 24/7. "

 

Seth,

That sounds about right. I always figured it would cost the average user

about $60 to $100 in electricity per year to keep the computer turned on

all the time with power saving modes enabled. But electricity expenses are

just one factor to consider. I wrote a detailed article on this topic that

covers various other aspects such as suseptability to power line conditions,

higher risk for failures, thermal stress, etc..

 

SHOULD I KEEP MY COMPUTER TURNED ON ALL THE TIME?

HTH-FreeInfo_ShouldIKeepMyPcTurnedOn

 

---pete---

[Seth]

I agree Pete, there is no simple answer that you can pose in the article.

 

Wolfey,

 

I posted the link as I always thought (and confirmed over the last three years), that PC power consumption is overrated, and the ill informed get caught up in buying outrageous PS's.

[Dalo Harkin]

I agree in the fact that people are always banging on about how much energy PC's use - I have a Zalman device on m PC that tells me exactly how much power my pc is using and its all real time, when idle its around 110Watt and when at full load it's around the 400Watt mark.

BUT bear in mind that this is a very high end PC:-

Q6600 at 4GHz

260 GTX

8 HDD's and 2 DVD-RW

 

I do not leave it on all the time but even so there is no way it costs £50 a year, just for the pc, BUT then again another point is that when people leave there pc's on I doubt that many unplug things like Monitor, Speakers etc - they leave them all on standby and this would also accumilate.

 

I saw an episode of Dragons Den the other night and it was some guy banging on about an energy efficient server and Peter Jones absolutely tore shreads off this guy - all the components could be bought off the shelf and in the end they all dropped out and Peter carried on at this guy about how 'energy efficient' it was. - If you get the chance watch it - hilarious - was on BBC three on Monday night :)