high power consumption?
| General Hardware Forum Discuss, high power consumption? at Computer Hardware forum; Is there any way to monitor how much energy a computer is using? My energy bill, which is usually around $45, was $70 last month and the only thing which changed was my new computer. Granted my old comp was six years old so I would expect an increase, but |
| Is there any way to monitor how much energy a computer is using? My energy bill, which is usually around $45, was $70 last month and the only thing which changed was my new computer. Granted my old comp was six years old so I would expect an increase, but only slight. I only have the computer on for a max of about 8 hours a day. A few specs: Old computer: Dell optiplex GX110 CPU: PIII 800 RAM: 2 sticks of 256MB (PC 100) Video: PCI ATI Radeon 9200se 2 hard drives and 2 opticals New Computer: put together myself Mobo: Asus P5LD2 Deluxe CPU: P4 650 @ 4 GHz RAM: matched pair of OCZ gold 512MB (PC 5400) Video: Same ATI 9200se 2 hard drives and 2 opticals |
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| Go look at your power meter with the comp on and read the KWhr rate, then turn it off and read it again. Similarly, read the actual meter position then check it again in a few hours and calulate the usage. |
| Maybe the price you pay went up but not the usage. Lots of that going around these days  |
| Gotta love the prescHOT! Your CPU alone eats over 100w, but I think there is a problem. There has to be another cause. There's no way the new machine eats that much more. Something else is burning the power.
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