Rough cost of running a gaming PC?

Hard to say but tweak this as needed should get you close

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Get yourself a power meter.

escorttwincam02/05/2022 13:28

Ok so say 565 watts, that's 0.5 kw/h, say 25p per kw/h, 12p per hour to …Ok so say 565 watts, that's 0.5 kw/h, say 25p per kw/h, 12p per hour to run is that right? 6 hours a day, 12p x 6 = 72p per day, £21.60 per month (30 days)? ish...Read lessRead more

In theory yes, but depends on gpu and cpu, also the monitors..

You need a plug in energy monitor. The Tapo one is good I've found. Can also use it as a smart plug.

Number of factors I presume you will need to take into account. What size monitors? The pc setup they have e.g GPU and CPU.

Might be worth making a note of the electrical metre before they start playing and then after a couple of hours look at it again and work it out that way (obviously need to take into account other things drawing power).

My power meter runs about 300 400w I think for the 2700x and 3070. Think tv another 100w

Right now at idle it is 90w (as in windows running but using my phone for this) (edited)

Gaming is kind of an odd market. Instead of everything being optimised to do things as efficiently as possible as in most products it's often a selling point to have extra power which means the power efficiency of a 'gaming PC' varies hugely depending on the configuration.

It could be as little as 50W for an efficient laptop/Mini PC with only one monitor in use during gaming or as much as ~800W if they're a graphical enthusiast chasing the state of the art.

It'll idle at about 5-10% of it's gaming power, and undemanding uses like web browsing won't use much more.

Yenyoc02/05/2022 10:58

Hard to say but tweak this as needed should get you …Hard to say but tweak this as needed should get you closehttps://outervision.com/b/8xfmRnRead lessRead more

Ok so say 565 watts, that's 0.5 kw/h, say 25p per kw/h, 12p per hour to run is that right?
6 hours a day, 12p x 6 = 72p per day, £21.60 per month (30 days)? ish...

As other have said either buy to link smart plug with energy monitoring or a cheap 3 pin LCD one that's non smart. PC has such a varied power usage that you will not get an accurate figure using just pen and paper.

£14.99, tho was 9.99 last week for tapo p110, also means you can set it to auto turn off or use voice commands on phone.

My surface book 3 has 105w charger but it never uses, lucky to see half that wattage.

I did a lot of tests a few weeks back after a moronic journalist wrote an article explaining about energy usage and costs and to unplug chargers when not in use as they use the same amount of energy regardless of whether they are being used at the time.

Same as British gas lying to the nation in their report last week about energy usage and standby costs. Absolute total BS yet it was printed across multiple organisations with no one questioning the content.

I'd really not start going down this road, it's just going to cause trouble and unless you start measuring everyone's usage, kettles, ovens, hair dryers you can't do it fairly and it'll descend into pettyness.

There's not a chance I'd even engage with you on this. I don't drink hot drinks or use the kettle, some people have a few an hour, how are you billing for that? (edited)

Is this even serious? Does your room mate time how much time you spend in the shower? how many baths you take? how long you use the hair dryer for?

absolutely ridiculous. there is also no way they are gaming for 12 hours per day. if they are when do they work or sleep?

PsychoSonny04/05/2022 14:25

Is this even serious? Does your room mate time how much time you spend in …Is this even serious? Does your room mate time how much time you spend in the shower? how many baths you take? how long you use the hair dryer for?absolutely ridiculous. there is also no way they are gaming for 12 hours per day. if they are when do they work or sleep?Read lessRead more

Where did i say 12 hours a day? Where did i say they work or sleep? Absolutely ridiculous lol...