how to calculate the power consumption of my rig?

dynamota

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Jul 10, 2006
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Hi All,

About a year back, I built a rig.

Basic spec:
AMD FX 55
nvidia v9999 ultta vid card
2 gig ram
amd about 250 gig hard drive. The case has three fans. The PSU used is a ANTEC 480 watts. On an average it's up for about 4- 5hrs with about 1hr gaming included.



How can I find out as to how much power is consumed by my pc, so that I can find out the $$ converstion. Or basically percentage of my monthly electricity bill.

Tx in advance.
 

The Borg

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Apr 9, 2006
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If you can measure the current of the rig while it is running in various states - idle, full load, then multiply this by the local voltage to get the power consumption.