[frickfrock999]

Just wondering what you guys pay each month for it.
List how much you pay and what you use your rig for, if it's up 24/7, that sort of thing.

 

[sillymansam]

isn't that personal data?

 

[CryWin]

$300-$400 (during the winter)

I don't pay for it though..

As for my rig.. it only uses like 250 watts with my monitor.. I have been turning it off at night, but my dad's and bro's computers are on 24/7 usually.

 

[Eduardv]

hmmmm $90

 

[ovyeminem]

Mine is on 24/7, i dont use it for anything when im not at it, i just leave it on.

The bill comes every couple of months and its around 70$.

 

[shadow19935]

i pay like £50 a month

 

[MistaBernie]

It's going to vary greatly anyway. I could mention that I got my first bill after folding almost 24/7 last month on my sig rig (at the time on a 750TX) and that my bill went up $10 for a total of about $76.00, but that wouldn't do you any good because energy costs in your area may be wholly different. When I lived a couple of towns over a few years ago with my best friend, our monthly electric bill was upwards of $100/mo, and we didn't have central air like I do at my current place, and I wasn't running a PC like I am now.

 

[wtomlinson]

military housing = all the electricity i can gobble up (although technically i do get money taken out of my checks for housing)

i probably wouldn't be able to afford playing games all the time if i had to pay for usage.

my sig rig stays on most the day but i turn it off at night, i have a Dell Optiplex 755 that i use for my home server (stays on 24/7), and my Latitude D620 my wife uses pretty much all the time.

 

[Shadow_UGZ]

60$/month normally, 120$/month in the winter. Living with 2 roommates in an apartment and my computer is usually on all the time (folding and using 42" TV as monitor). Electricity in Quebec is cheap though, 5 cents per KWh

 

[UnAimed]

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Originally Posted by sillymansam isn't that personal data?

why

 

[ghettogeddy]

about 100 but i have a crappy on wall heater and ac unit
so thats what spikes my bill

and i turn my rig off when i go to bed and if im leaving the house for more then a couple hours

 

[ShortySmalls]

my parents pay the bills

, and they ussly pay around $400-$500 for our electric bill in the winter, around $300 in the summer. I run my rig 18/7 and mostly for games or just idling

 

[frickfrock999]

Jeez, there's gotta be a way to calculate this.
I have no idea how much kilowatts my rig uses.
It's usually only on 16/7, but still. would be nice to know.

 

[eseb1]

Ours is cheep for some reason, $50 with 3 computers on 24/7

 

[frickfrock999]

How much do you think my rig would add up to?
If I just game and web surf?

 

[Shadow_UGZ]

Quote:

Originally Posted by frickfrock99 How much do you think my rig would add up to? If I just game and web surf?

You could get this to get the accurate power usage but I'd give a very rough estimate of 200-300W.

 

[frickfrock999]

So my rig uses 300w at full?
How many kilowatts is that?

 

[CryWin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by frickfrock99 So my rig uses 300w at full? How many kilowatts is that?

.3 killowatts (kilowatt = 1000 watt)

I estimate ~350 watts with the CPU and GPU under full load. (.35kw)

 

[frickfrock999]

So over say 16 hours= 4.8 killowatts a day correct? And 144 watts a month?
That's roughly what I would use?

 

[Shadow_UGZ]

Quote:

Originally Posted by frickfrock99 So over say 16 hours= 4.8 killowatts a day correct? And 144 kilowatts a month? That's roughly what I would use?

Yeah, very roughly. Your computer is mostly likely running idle 3/4 of the time so it would be much less than that.

If you want to calculate how much your rig costs you can multiply the kilowatts it uses in an hour by the cost per KWh from your power company. You will get how much it costs per hour, from there you can get the cost within any time frame.