thinking of buying a new videocard - for power savings?!

[Schmide]

its about 50 cents per kilowatt hour where we are in california. i did the math and currently it takes $350 a month give or take to run my entire milkyway@home farm at those rates. im so glad im not the one paying for power, and the one who is is running 3 to 4 times as much stuff as me :awe:

Me thinks you exaggerate a bit. Yes you can get into situations in CA where you reach the tier 5 baseline and incur around that price; but if you average the total cost of the bill it rarely, even for businesses, gets over 20c a kwh.

12¢ / kWh - up to the baseline
14¢ / kWh - 101 to 130% of baseline
29¢ / kWh - 131 to 200% of baseline
42¢ / kWh - 201 - 300% of baseline
50¢ / kWh - over 300% of baseline

 

[Toadster]

my worst case scenario thus far is 18c per kwh

 

[happy medium]

my worst case scenario thus far is 18c per kwh

Wow, 9 cents here in Philly.

 

[netxzero64]

just keep you twin GTXs... it won't make much of a difference... rather go for 5970 for much better gaming experience plus good power saving feature LOL!

 

[edplayer]

its about 50 cents per kilowatt hour where we are in california. i did the math and currently it takes $350 a month give or take to run my entire milkyway@home farm at those rates. im so glad im not the one paying for power, and the one who is is running 3 to 4 times as much stuff as me :awe:

have you ever looked at your electricity bill? Because it sounds like you are spending at least $1400 a month on just running computers

 

[Toadster]

a LAN party at my house a few years ago spiked my electric bill by $90 that month

18 PC's with 17-21" CRTs will do that