Question about power usage

[Jglz98]

Hello, ive always had a question regarding the power usage that my pc needed. I live in México so the electricity is probably going to be handled way different than other countries, here we have a company called CFE which is supposed to regulate the usage of electricity and blabla, like 2 years ago i used to use my pc on the mid power usage mode, not the highest one and not the lowest one (i dont remember the name of the profiles in english) and suddenly the electricity bill went crazy, there were cases of famous people getting these insane bills too, so I dont know if my case was the same as them or was because of my pc, so for the past 2 years i been using my pc on the lowest power mode, so my question is, is there a lot of difference from the lowest profile to the middle one in terms of power usage? 

[Mira Yurizaki]

If we're talking about Windows and the three default power profiles, theoretically yes, there's going to be a significant difference between the Power Saver and Balanced plans, but only if the computer is doing a lot of work. Otherwise if you're browsing the internet or whatnot, the two are effectively the same.

 

If you're concerned with power consumption usage, I suggest getting a watt meter, like a Kill-A-Watt, to monitor your usage.

[Srijan Verma]

depends on your hardware, You can check your every profile wattage by connecting it to a voltmeter or

You can do it via software like afterburner or HWMonitor and check wattage of your cpu and gpu the rest of the system has very low power consumption to affect your bill big time

[Lorant]

Low power mode just enacts the screen saver and hibernate modes sooner.  You can see all that it does in the settings...

 

Click "Change Plan Settings"

 

Also, you can buy a Killawatt device to measure your usage at the wall, which you should probably do.  Here's a cheap one:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Electricity-Monitor-Voltage-Overload-Protection/dp/B07DPJ3RGB/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=killawatt&qid=1579709232&sr=8-5

 

 

 

[Jglz98]

6 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

If we're talking about Windows and the three default power profiles, theoretically yes, there's going to be a significant difference between the Power Saver and Balanced plans, but only if the computer is doing a lot of work. Otherwise if you're browsing the internet or whatnot, the two are effectively the same.

 

If you're concerned with power consumption usage, I suggest getting a watt meter, like a Kill-A-Watt, to monitor your usage.

The most i do is play games, i kinda know that power consumption is related to hardwer and the most i have is a ryzen 2600 and asus dual gtx 1060 so its not really a beast pc, also i mostly do between 4-8 hours throughout the day. Im gonna search for a watt meter, thanks for the suggestion