How much is that gaming rig REALLY costing you?

[W1nTry]

Here is a very good article about the POWER consumption of the pcs we run in daily life or the BEASTS thats pwnz all your friends in gaming.
http://www17.tomshardware.com/howto/20050713/index.html

Here's a nice like pic with some rough figures of the kwH we getting at idle and the power being drawn from a pretty decent rig (A64 and X800) at IDLE:

[W1nTry]

EEK!!! LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS!!! ESP THE INTEL NUMBERS LMAO more lihixx for Intellites CRIXX where yuh?

[Crixx_Creww]

more propaganda

rough is damn right.
400+ dollars in electricity and iam assuming that its us as well.

No way, how alyuh does sleep at night when alyuh go an bogard de results like that?

[W1nTry]

come on dude this is all from tom's hardware which as memory serves me right is Intel inclined :p grow up and face the music, Intel is not on top any more.

[TriniXaeno]

oh mc at those figures.

Not too bad if you're at home with one such machine but think about running a GL with 20 of those monsters!!

Damn. Your electricity bill will double.

It is already pretty damn ridiculous. We used to hit $3000 - 4000.00 normal normal with Geforce4 440MX and 1600Mhz processors.

* [X]-Baego starts looking into solar panels as an alternative source of power.

[SPK]

lol @ solar panels..

Not here Baego...if you get solar power, guess what?! You STILL have to pay T&TEC rates for the electricity generated from it!!!!

[TriniXaeno]

you have to be kidding me right?

[W1nTry]

I Think if u do it discretely and NOT IN CLEAR view yuh might avoid that... about the paying T&TEC... where u hear dat from...hmm I have a few partnas in T&TEC I should ask dem... dat would be REAL BALLS and I can't see that being legal dread...

[Crixx_Creww]

wdf??

SO DE MCS CHARGING WE FOR DE FLIKKIN SUNLIGHT TO?
WDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

YUH SEE WAH AMD AND ATI DOES CAUSE!!

[W1nTry]

LMAO YEAH RIGHT, is cause they realise how much power prescott does pull so they figure pplz will NEED alternative, cheaper sources of power that they realize they should charge pplz for extra power :p denial will be the end of u intellites!!!

[Netizen1]

It would seem painfully clear to me that your gaming rig cannot be your one and only PC for day to day use such as downloads and surfing net...

* Voyd keepin budget rig for a lil longer now

[TriniXaeno]

Only if it's a high end intel rig!
Draining nearly twice that of the highend AMD rig due to the higher clock speed.

damn. scary figures.

In TT terms, that may mean a $1000.00 difference in electricity usage for the year, if you got your PC on all the time.

Not a whole lot of money, but I just can't stop thinking about the difference that would make for a GL.

Imagin one with 50 Pcs like SnS!. That is $50,000 more in current for the year.

Pressure!