How has Folding@home affected your electricity bill?

[dna1x]

Aloha TPU Folders!

Please post here if you know how much your folding has affected your electric bill. My previous monthly bills here in Hawai'i were $69 and $67 before i started folding. The new bill which reflects my folding 24/7 for 34 days continuously is $97. You can probably conclude that it costs about a dollar/day to fold 24/7 on my pc here and that I don't have many electrical appliances and lights running in my house given that electricity costs here are the highest in the U.S.

Please only post if you have an electric bill to pay or at least know what it is and can estimate the electricity cost of folding on your machine(s). Also post the frequency in which you are folding (ie 24/7 or 8hours/day, etc). Please also post your current specs of your folding machine(s). Also state specifically where you are folding from. (ie Alaska, USA or Gold Coast, Australia, etc)

The purpose of this post to estimate the electrical costs of the TPU Folding@home team. I'll will then use the data for my research and present it to my class.

Thanks for your help!

[El Fiendo]

I'm not sure, I guess I could go ask my neighbor how his bill has changed but he might get suspicious.

[Kursah]

None fortunately because it's part of the covered utilities in my apartment building. But we are planning on moving eventually so that will definately change.

[WhiteLotus]

i have stopped folding for other issues but the bill didn't effect me. i just compensated by living in the dark, not watching tv etc.

[Haytch]

Originally Posted by El Fiendo

I'm not sure, I guess I could go ask my neighbor how his bill has changed but he might get suspicious.

ROFL!!!

I think im closer to $2.50 au a day. Ive been folding for so long i forgot what a normal bill was like. Melbourne, Australia. Origin Electricity.

[BUCK NASTY]

Originally Posted by Kursah

None fortunately because it's part of the covered utilities in my apartment building. But we are planning on moving eventually so that will definately change.

Let me know when you move so i can set up my farm in that apartment.

[DrPepper]

Originally Posted by BUCK NASTY

Let me know when you move so i can set up my farm in that apartment.

I can imagine it being like walking into a data centre if you got a hold of that place.

Kursah you should grab yourself some batteries and sell that electricity for cheap

[mmaakk]

Going from 900 kVh before folding to 2.353 kWh with 9 rigs folding (not anymore). YES my pocket still has a hole.

I cropped this image from my elec. bill:

[jagass]

I'm not really sure about this..Is this your homework?...

[AthlonX2]

my bill went up 60 bucks..

[mmaakk]

Originally Posted by jagass

I'm not really sure about this..Is this your homework?...

Yes, is kind of a homework. Not imposed by a teacher but still

[kiriakost]

From an article that i had read before few weeks ( sorry no link ) ,
the average power consumption got up, about 50 - 80W per hour. ( Per single computer )

24x80 = 1920W per day = 2KW/h x 30 = 60KW per month ----> 60 x 12 = 720KW


Yes its costly ... very costly .... because you have to work hard in order to pay the price .
You have to loose funds , that could be spend for getting other things , or having vacations.

I consider folding , as a waste , and the folding points collection ,
as a hook deliberately made , to take advantage of the need of the young ones,
to compete then selfs .

You don't have to guess. Just get a kill-a-watt or other elec. usage meter and measure with an without load. I think your estimate is a little high. I do WCG not F@H but it's an issue there too.

I think the big hit comes from overclocking and cooling - both of which ramp up your cost. I got a figure closer to 50watts extra, but that was on a mildly oc'd rig (2.8ghz q6600 iirc). But if you're going up to 3.2 or higher, the cost must be higher. Plus those high end card run hot to begin with. My first 4850 self-destructed and was too hot to touch.

[WhiteLotus]

Originally Posted by kiriakost

From an article that i had read before few weeks ( sorry no link ) ,
the average power consumption got up, about 50 - 80W per hour. ( Per single computer )

24x80 = 1920W per day = 2KW/h x 30 = 60KW per month ----> 60 x 12 = 720KW


Yes its costly ... very costly .... because you have to work hard in order to pay the price .
You have to loose funds , that could be spend for getting other things , or having vacations.

I consider folding , as a waste , and the folding points collection ,
as a hook deliberately made , to take advantage of the need of the young ones,
to compete then selfs .

or its for the average joe to contribute to society.

I see lots of reasons to do it just a shame its method of doing so is so buggy.

[kiriakost]

Originally Posted by WhiteLotus

or its for the average joe to contribute to society.

I see lots of reasons to do it just a shame its method of doing so is so buggy.

Ex plane your self ... and remove this syringe from your eye .. its the worst signature on this forum.

[WhiteLotus]

Originally Posted by kiriakost

Ex plane your self ... and remove this syringe from your eye .. its the worst signature on this forum.

explain how? Which bit do you not understand?

And no - i will not remove it. If it annoys you that much report it.

if you use firefox, get the adblock+ plugin and you can block images you don't like. If you use IE, then you're sort of screwed i guess since i don't think they have such a plugin.

crunching (wcg, et al.) and folding (F@H et al.) do useful scientific research that no doubt will benefit humanity. However, to get caught up in the points race is a mistake. Any satisfaction you might get is short term and costly. Forget the electricity. I had 6 rigs running and each one cost a minimum of $500. Hell, I paid over $200 on average (conservative) just for the chips.

It is however addictive for those of us with obsessive and/or addictive personalities. Fortunately I'm not so far gone that I can't see that and finally came to my senses. Also, as a hardware junkie it was a perennial excuse to get new stuff.

It's kind of weird because I worked on the old United Devices project for years and never gave a squat about points, ranking or anything else. It wasn't until UD folded and i headed over to WCG that I got crazy. Strange.

[DrPepper]

Originally Posted by kiriakost

From an article that i had read before few weeks ( sorry no link ) ,
the average power consumption got up, about 50 - 80W per hour. ( Per single computer )

24x80 = 1920W per day = 2KW/h x 30 = 60KW per month ----> 60 x 12 = 720KW


Yes its costly ... very costly .... because you have to work hard in order to pay the price .
You have to loose funds , that could be spend for getting other things , or having vacations.

I consider folding , as a waste , and the folding points collection ,
as a hook deliberately made , to take advantage of the need of the young ones,
to compete then selfs .

I see your point. I've asked what has it contributed so far and I got mixed answers. I personally don't fold because I don't see results and our power bill doubled when I did.

[BUCK NASTY]

Originally Posted by kiriakost

Ex plane your self ... and remove this syringe from your eye .. its the worst signature on this forum.

Whitelotus's sig is a TPU favorite and has complete approval from Mods and Staff. Now let's get this thread back on track.

[mmaakk]

Whitelotus, your sig is unique and we all love it! I really can't see you with another one.

[kiriakost]

In my village , the quality of a character worths more than signatures ...

And as far it goes , she has none of it .

[BUCK NASTY]

Originally Posted by kiriakost

In my village , the quality of a character worths more than signatures ...

And as far it goes , she has none of it .

Thread hijack is over. Get back to the OP. Last warning.

[LifeOnMars]

Originally Posted by kiriakost

In my village , the quality of a character worths more than signatures ...

And as far it goes , she has none of it .

In your village you must be worth jack shit then. I'm sick of this guy spouting nonsense and hijacking threads with his own whimsical crap. Get rid of him. As far as folding goes, having lost my father to cancer two years ago I am all for it. I feel that the theory and implementation of it is fine and anything which is working towards a greater good can never be a bad thing.

[Jizzler]

My last five months have been 1306, 1332, 1467, 1335, and 1484 KWH.

Would need to find my Kill-A-Watt meter to find out how much of that is my family's three computers. I also just picked up a couple older dual Xeon boxes to be used at Home Servers. Though they might not fold (be at constant load) because of low PPD.

[mike047]

When I run my full farm [46 boxes], the bill is $500-550us.