m17x watts... per month

Last Month, my electric bill came out pretty high, I would like to know if the m17x in my sig is a big part of the expense?... 240w power supply, how much kw does the m17x uses a month, left on 24/7 ?

 

.240 kilowats/hour max. Not that big of an impact by itself.
I didn't notice a real increase using my 1350 watt desktop at 1.35 kw / hr.

 

and 240w per hour is running the game at full speed right?, how about the idle time ?

 

I *believe* at idle you are probably less than 75 watts. Can test tonight when I get home and plug into UPS.

 

oh around 75 watts.. hmm must find something else then, i'll be happy if you can test it for me

 

Putting it in stealth mode ensures a 65W maximum power usage.

 

The energy spent is in this context, for some reason, measured in kilowatt hours (kWh), which are a unit of energy (power * time).

So if you have a 240W machine running 24/7 for 30 days, that's:

0.24 kW * 30 day * 24 hr/day = 172.8 kWh.

That's the theoretical maximum of energy that the computer can spend in 30 days. But it's probably at least a factor of 10 more than it actually uses. Unless it's running benchmarks 24/7 for an entire month.

 

I ran a test lat night and I maxed at 204 watts playing BC2 in crossfire. Thats the highest I could get it and that was a spike. Normal gaming sits at about 170 watts. After a boot just sitting at the desktop was 68 watts. The stealth button only dropped the at rest (desktop) to 66 watts. I think stealth is more of a cap than a bottom line.
My average use over 3 hours was 144 watts and that included some gaming, web surfing, and creating office documents. With the average cost of electricity in the us being $.12 kWh (its only .08 in OH (- , 0.12 * 30 * 24 * .14 = $12.09
My true cost is about $7-8 a month.

 

Thanks for the interesting info guys. I need to pay more attention to how I use my electricity...

 

thanks getfound, now ... this thing isn't the culprid, could be the fridge... the alienware, if run 24/7 at 240w, should be 15 dollars, but still pretty high, should be doing 70 watts everyday except for a few hours when I'm playing

 

Nevermind me.