Just curious, how much more electricity $$$?

[iceliquid]

How much more in electricity bills would you guys estimate if one was to leave a computer on 24/7 for rc5 cracking.

Plez, no discussions on the benefits of leaving your computer on all the time (i.e. thermal stresses) hee hee

Muchos gracias

 

[Hellburner]

Depends on how much your electricity costs, at $.11/kwh a box runs about $6/month, double that if you leave the monitor on.

 

[SlangNRox]

I know my school is raising room and board by $275 next year due to rising elctricity costs. I guess this is fine because in the summer I plan to make full (24/7@max power) use of the AC. Between that and my computers I think my housing price will not be that bad compared to off campus housing just in electricity savings.

 

[CurtOien]

iceliquid,
In cold weather, if you're heating your building, it makes less of a difference.
In hot weater, if you're cooling your building, it makes more of a difference.

 

[JWMiddleton]

iceliquid: What Curt Oien said is correct. I have 9 systems (6.2 GHz) in my apartment and they create a lot of heat. I have the bedroom window cracked and the A/C on with the outside temp dropping into the 30's. So, I have no heating cost! BUT, I am very concerned about warm weather moving in. Might have to reduce the speed on some of these boxes as all but one is OC'ed.

 

[Jarhead]

Georgia?

Boy you got a summer down there.

 

[iceliquid]

Thanks guys for your input. And the heating in the winter and cooling in the summer was something I hadn't consider since I just moved to a different climate where there are more summer-winter extremes then where I use to live.

RC-5 away!!

 

[JWMiddleton]

Jarhead:



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My home is in GA, where I have 4 boxes crunching, but the boxes I was concerned about are in my Corporate Apartment in Shreveport, LA (about 180 miles east of Dallas). It gets hotter here than in Atlanta, but not by much.