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| 736476 | 2009-01-08 21:35:00 | If my household is with Genesis Energy, how much a month would it cost to leave 2 pcs running 24/7? (neither of them will have a screen)..... each has a stock psu of 300W (i really dont bother buying high powered ones).... i wouldnt think it would be too much to keep them running... | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 736477 | 2009-01-09 01:05:00 | Bugger all. | pctek (84) | ||
| 736478 | 2009-01-09 01:24:00 | im just tryin to get a ballpark figure, so i can take the blame off my machines being the cultprits of high power bills | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 736479 | 2009-01-09 01:30:00 | Well as an example - once One of my servers was down for about 3.5 weeks until I finally got down to fixing it. That month the power bill was about the normal as every other month - didn't notice any difference. so running two PC's 2 x of what Pctek mentioned 2x bugger all. If you didn't use the clothes drier a few times, or the other half didn't take those extra long showers it would cost you less. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 736480 | 2009-01-09 01:54:00 | Here our power bill is approximately $0.20/kw/hr. To keep things simple, let's assume that your PCs are drawing 300W each, all the time. That's 600W for 2 machines. 600W x 24 hours x 31 days = 446400 watt hours = 446.4KW/H 446.4x $0.20 = $89.28 over the course of a month. Realistically, your PCs probably won't be drawing 300W all the time (and depending on the specs, maybe never), so it will cost less than that. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 736481 | 2009-01-09 02:00:00 | Here our power bill is approximately $0.20/kw/hr. To keep things simple, let's assume that your PCs are drawing 300W each, all the time. That's 600W for 2 machines. 600W x 24 hours x 31 days = 446400 watt hours = 446.4KW/H 446.4x $0.20 = $89.28 over the course of a month. Realistically, your PCs probably won't be drawing 300W all the time (and depending on the specs, maybe never), so it will cost less than that. I'd say you could chop at least 1/3rd off that, maybe even half. :thumbs: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 736482 | 2009-01-09 02:07:00 | I'd say you could chop at least 1/3rd off that, maybe even half. :thumbs: Of course. It depends a lot on the specs of the PCs we're talking about though - if adianmaz's machines have decent CPUs and heaps of hard drives which are under lots of load all the time, then it could chew up a good part of the 300W PSU. On the other hand, if they're ancient boxes sitting there doing nothing most of the time, then the power consumption will be much, much less. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 736483 | 2009-01-09 02:23:00 | a 2.4Ghz and a 2.8 Ghz. One has 2 hdds and the other has one, most of time will be idle-ish | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 736484 | 2009-01-09 03:07:00 | im just tryin to get a ballpark figure, so i can take the blame off my machines being the cultprits of high power bills Buy one of those power measuring gadgets from DSE. Things that suck power like crazy: Electric heaters Clothes driers Heat Pumps DVSs Hot water cylinder Dishwashers And however is moaning - tell them I pay $1.40 daily charge on my home power bill and $2.19 on the shop. So using nothing here at all I still get a whacking big bill. I know what Aucklands is like - my sons is 89c. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 736485 | 2009-01-09 03:13:00 | Things that suck power like crazy: Electric heaters Clothes driers Heat Pumps DVSs Hot water cylinder Dishwashers Just go and turn your electric jug on and watch your meter go round like crazy. |
Digby (677) | ||
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