Your electric bill!

[Toothless]

So my family is huge on conserving power, and I (attempted) to see how much power my setup will take. While living in Washington, it should be at max $20/month, including monitors. Does that sound right?

What's yours?

 

[sneekypeet]

I would say $20 if you are using it pretty hard all of the time. Adding in a rig to the living room to fold and crunch full time runs me about $20 a month in Ohio. ( that is roughly 7 cents a kilowatt hour )

 

[Toothless]

I would say $20 if you are using it pretty hard all of the time. Adding in a rig to the living room to fold and crunch full time runs me about $20 a month in Ohio. ( that is roughly 7 cents a kilowatt hour )

I'm about 8 cents per, though I measured by 9 cents.

 

[natr0n]

Can set power options to power saver mode too save more power.

 

[MT Alex]

Power is dirt cheap in the West, that's why we built dams. My power bill is always less than $100, and I never give a thought to how much power my rigs use.

 

[Toothless]

Well we try to keep our bill at $50 for 4 people - my mother, father, sister, and myself.

 

[twilyth]

I have 4 rigs that run. One dualie draws 300watts on full load the other about 150. I figure the 2 2600k's use around 100 each. Running 24/7 at 20 cents per kwhr that comes to at least $70/month for WCG alone or over $800 per year. Unfortunately that's only a small part of my monthly bill.

 

[R-T-B]

I'm in Washington but I mine bitcoins. You don't want to see my electric bill. It makes baby evergreeners cry.

-RTB2011, Just finished running another 20amp 220V outlet. Those look weird, BTW.

 

[AsRock]

Well we try to keep our bill at $50 for 4 people - my mother, father, sister, and myself.

Not a chance here even if we kept the computer off for a month we still hit pretty much $50 a month, my UPS tells me it's about 24 KW\h and the other is about 15Kw\h.

And your electric bill is going depend a lot if anyone's home all the time or not too as those toaster oven microwave hoover coffee maker and what not soon add up even if they are only on a short time they sucking up some 700w+ in most cases.

One thing that will save you a load of money is to dump those old light bulbs for the newer type.

Ooh don't forget the electric boiler too if you have one try to keep it as low as possible on top of that check with your electric company if they charge extra after a % is hit too.

Landlord here had 3 60w in the living room 7 60w in the kitchen 3 60w in the bathroom which really adds up real fast.

If you want to skimp extra you will have to start turning shit off at the plug as standby and those transformers take some too.

 

[Toothless]

Not a chance here even if we kept the computer off for a month we still hit pretty much $50 a month, my UPS tells me it's about 24 KW\h and the other is about 15Kw\h.

And your electric bill is going depend a lot if anyone's home all the time or not too as those toaster oven microwave hoover coffee maker and what not soon add up even if they are only on a short time they sucking up some 700w+ in most cases.

One thing that will save you a load of money is to dump those old light bulbs for the newer type.

Ooh don't forget the electric boiler too if you have one try to keep it as low as possible on top of that check with your electric company if they charge extra after a % is hit too.

Landlord here had 3 60w in the living room 7 60w in the kitchen 3 60w in the bathroom which really adds up real fast.

If you want to skimp extra you will have to start turning shit off at the plug as standby and those transformers take some too.

Well my mother loves to bake and she does the cooking, so there is the oven/stone (all electric)

The 50 inch TV is running quite a bit now that my father is off work for a bit, I'm sure that doesn't help.

We have the keurig coffee maker and that'll spit out 2-6 cups of coffee daily. I know it's 8w idle, 6w off, and something like 1300w when heating the water. I'm guilty of two cups.

The water heater and fireplace is gas, and maybe the overall house heat is gas? Not sure on that one.

THEN we come to my triple-weird-monitor/tv setup and desktop. 12in ViewSonic. 30-34in Sceptre and 21.5in HP 2009F. And my desktop where I run WCG on half the threads+heavy game on the other half with my GPU really kicking in. Not always though.

Plus my laptop that I changed the settings to let it underclock normally. 65w power brick but I'm sure it never gets close to that usage now.

 

[micropage7]

later since price per watt in indonesia get higher and higher
my point now is lower power consumption and thats why i move from AMD to intel and since i just seldom gaming its pretty fine for me to take the G processor ( 65 watts than AMD Phenom X4)
now that AMD back in the box

 

[Aquinus]

Well, for my last several billing cycles, I used the following amount of power:
Dec: 654kW/hr
Nov: 735kW/hr
Oct: 732kW/hr
Sept: 663kW/hr
Aug: 979kW/hr
July: 822kW/hr
June: 680kW/hr

You can clearly see when we use air conditioners, but generally speaking my apartment consumes a lot of power. The cooking stove, oven (both, we have a double oven), washing machine, dryer, and the Plasma all consume a large amount of power and the Plasma is on most of the day between my wife and my daughter.

In the dead of winter (right now) I pay about ~0.20 USD per kW/hr between producer costs and transmission costs (15 cents and 5 cents respectively?) Either way, the last bill was about 130 USD and that's a very normal power bill and tends to be consistent over the course of the year. However normally 115 is more realistic. Prices goes up in the winter because of the demand put on natural gas and the simple fact that demand for power goes up in the winter. So demand + higher fuel costs drive prices up in the winter.

I should add my gateway consumes something like 160 watts all the time and that's always on. More recently I ditched my OC and turned on every bit of power savings. Did it help? Not really. You get more benefit from power saving settings, even when your overclocking.

 

[MT Alex]

5.6 cents per kW/hr, here.

 

[Aquinus]

5.6 cents per kW/hr, here.

That sounds like Hydro-Quebec rates for the first 300kW/hr. I wish I could pay that much for power.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

we have a double oven

(@Toothless )Lightbulbie just came!

Now that folding season is upon me, my bill will be $300+ and I live by myself. The Opty 4P servers are 800w each and the dual GTX970's are pulling 480w. So I'm pulling approx 2500W+ 24/7 with other misc appliances and I pay approx .12/kwh. Bear in mind that my water/sewer/garbage is included in the $300+. Pfft, it's only money.

 

[THE_EGG]

5.6 cents per kW/hr, here.

brb selling my house and moving abroad :O that is so cheap.

I'll check my usage and rates in the morning but I'm pretty sure my rates are like 10 times that.

 

[hat]

We all need 80+ Platinum power supplies... lol

 

[jboydgolfer]

Our power company just announced a 37% increase in monthly rates starting Jan 1 2015. 37% is a pretty big hit, luckily My house is on the newer side, and has oil heat which is dropping per/100gallons.down to around 280usd/100 gallons.

 

[Blue-Knight]

So my family is huge on conserving power...

You are lucky. I am the only one here.

Your electric bill!

What's yours?

If I lived alone that would decrease by about 30-50%. But I do not.

 

[Peter1986C]

later since price per watt in indonesia get higher and higher
my point now is lower power consumption and thats why i move from AMD to intel and since i just seldom gaming its pretty fine for me to take the G processor ( 65 watts than AMD Phenom X4)
now that AMD back in the box

Newer AMD procs use far less than that Phenom. At least idle they (FM1 and later) are equal to current Intel, so only crunchers etc. might want to avoid those. You save far more power by using a proper Gold rated PSU and only leaving the PC on if you use it.

 

[alwayssts]

5.6 cents per kW/hr, here.

Right? .05064 here (not summer). .07339 in the summer. It's low enough that *most* things can be an afterthought.

I feel terrible for some of ya'll...except for the fact you probably live somewhere more exciting than the barren icebox that is the Northern Plains.

Wow. Ouch.

 

[Blue-Knight]

While living in Washington, it should be at max $
20/month, including monitors. Does that sound right?

It depends on how many hours a day your computer is powered on and how much power it draws and the price of energy in your area.

Mine consumes about 95W average with monitor powered on, it stays on for about 14 hours /day on average and the price of energy here (including taxes) is about $0.26 USD so it must be consuming about 1.3 kWh /day which is about 35-40 kWh /month or ~$10 USD /month.

I think $20 USD at just $0.09 /kWh is too much, unless you have HIGH END machine and you use it a lot... I would suggest you get some more accurate readings.

Wow. Ouch.

@alwayssts :
That's in my local currency, not USD.

 

[AsRock]

Lightbulbie just came!

Now that folding season is upon me, my bill will be $300+ and I live by myself. The Opty 4P servers are 800w each and the dual GTX970's are pulling 480w. So I'm pulling approx 2500W+ 24/7 with other misc appliances and I pay approx .12/kwh. Bear in mind that my water/sewer/garbage is included in the $300+. Pfft, it's only money.

Funny as our water\garbage\sewer is $200 on it's own lol.

 

[Toothless]

Y'all making me scared to move out on my own. LOL.

So $10-$15 is a good range for my desktop? I'm running the rig for about 13-16 hours a day.

(@Toothless )Lightbulbie just came!

Shhh no one else needs to know that.

 

[Devon68]

Well, for my last 4 billing cycles, I used the following amount of power:

Wow your seems pretty awesome.
In winter we use about 1550kwh
and at summer at around 800-950kwh
this is for 5 persons in the house.
Even now that I started working and dont use the pc as much the usage is still huge