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fishfingers

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Helo, I was hoping someone may be able to put my wifes mind at rest. We recieved our electricity bill today and my wife thinks that all of a sudden [due to me having adsl now and the comp being permanantely on] that our bill is much higher than normal. Can anyone tell me how much or how I can find out just how much the average computer costs to run.
Thanks,
David
 
Well, if your electric bill just shot up and the only thing different is that you're running the computer 24/7, then it's the darn computer. Do you havve to have it on 24/7? Do leave the TV on when you are not watching it or do you turn it off? Save money and turn it off.
 
Go to your local power co. and borrow the protable meter, It is just a regular meter with a plug and socket on it, plug the machine into it for 24 hours and then calculate how much it costs.
Bleep
 
If you left your system on 24 hours a day AND it is a higher end Athlon XP AND it runs full load all the time (like cracking RC-5 or SETI or something) you should still only see a $5-$10 per month difference depending on your rates.

It might help to set your screensaver/power scheme to turn off your monitor after X amount of time of inactivity. 😉

Edit -- activity is the opposite of inactivity. D'oh!!!
 
Originally posted by: madthumbs
Do not use screen savers, instead use the energy saver feature or turn the monitor off when not using it.
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That's what I'm saying. That power-saving setting is located in the screensaver tab 😉
 
Thank you all for your responses, so I take it that its the monitor that eats up the juice, I do infact turn monitor off when not actually at the comp, its the cost running the comp itself that concerns me. Actually I think that it costs very little to have the comp itself switched on all the time, but just needed someone elses opinion to show the missus.
thanks again
David
 
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