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How many watts am I using?

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dpopiz

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Hi
I now have 5 comps running most of the day, and I'm thinking I probably am not helping the power crisis, so that got me wondering: is there any simple way to figure out how many watts a computer is using? IF NOT: know of what some typical usages are for various components?

Thanks.
 
If you get a UPS with good monitoring software it will tell you the exact load. Just to give you an idea my computer and monitor use about 200W. I have a pretty heavily configured Athlon system (see system specs below) and 17" monitor.
 
yep a good ups will tell you

I just upgraded to a APC smart ups and get some interesting results. With the PC idleing ( 1% cpu use ) I noted the load, I then used a prog that loaded the cpu to 100% the load reported by the ups ( by calculation ) rose by 42 watts.

note I have a 700 va ups this gives 480 watts output ( VA * pf ) =watts assume pf to be 0.6 inductive for a pc psu
 
wow! only 200 watts for THAT system?! I was estimating about 380 watts total for MY system (see below) Could anybody give me an estimate of what my wimpy little system uses?


Anyway, why does everybody talk about needing a 300W psu minimum for athlons and all this stuff about peeps having probs because they don't have enough power?


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