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what the kilawatthour rating in your area and find out what the usage of your computers are under load {its simple to find out from there}

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it depends on your hardware. Only AMD cards can mine bitcoins fast enough to pay for your electricity.

 

And it really depends how much you have to pay for your kW/h here in Germany one kW/H costs 0,37 Dollar(USA) so i would never ever make any money.

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I have been wondering this as well, how much my computer uses maxed out.

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Corsair TX 750W PSU
  Intel® Core i7-3770 ProcessorATX 12V V2.3, 80 Plus Bronze, Standard. 4x 6+2-pin
 MSI B75MA-P45, Socket-1155Socket-LGA1155, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 8MB, 77W, HD400
 Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GBm-ATX, B75, DDR3, 1xG3-PCIe-x16, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3
 Gainward GeForce GTX 670 2GB PhysX CUDAKit w/4X HyperX 4GB DDR3, CL9-9-9-27, 240pin
 Crucial m4 SSD 2.5" 128GBPCI-Express 3.0, GDDR5, DVI-D+DVI-I, native-HDMI SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA3.0), 500MB/175MB/s read/write

 

Sorry about the copy-paste of the parts :P

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@Taipeek: Well, CPU isn't power hungry as GPU's, and you can still put out nice PPD (take a look on the spreadsheet topic). I'm folding with a i5 3450 and a 3570k, and the PPD is decent. The AMD GPU will get tanked without core17 wus, and depending on how old are those nVidia cards they could be not supported. If they are supported, just fold and see if the PPD is worth to leave it on.

 

With CPU only you'll be consuming around 120W per rig (I'm guessing), 150W from the wall at 80% efficiency. Times 5, 750W from the wall every hour. At 0,26 USD for the kW/h, it'll cost you ,195 USD/h. 24/7 it'll be 140 USD in one month.

 

@Talsyrius: Your rig will draw about 250~300W at full load, depending on GPU overclock. At 80% efficiency your rig will draw 310~375W from the wall.

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Ya, the newer ones, with the highest efficiency PSU will give you the most bang for your buck. I am running about $100 a month for power... I expect that to go up a wee bit when I add in two more 4P servers, but all my systems use Gold efficiency PSU...

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Ya, the newer ones, with the highest efficiency PSU will give you the most bang for your buck. I am running about $100 a month for power... I expect that to go up a wee bit when I add in two more 4P servers, but all my systems use Gold efficiency PSU...

 

And if I remember right, your kW/h cost is half of Taipeek's? Here the cost is ,17, so it's not that bad. In this days of no core17s, bitcoin mining easily pay my rig power cost  :).

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And if I remember right, your kW/h cost is half of Taipeek's? Here the cost is ,17, so it's not that bad. In this days of no core17s, bitcoin mining easily pay my rig power cost  :).

 

$.063 - Off-peak (night time)

$.099 - Mid-peak (day time)

$.118 - On-Peak (evening / monring)

 

Last month I did 2500 kWh

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If Intel ever gets that wireless power thing going. :)

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I will share mine with whomever can get an extension cord over here :D

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Few people have mentioned installing Solar Panels. Right now energy stuff in Ontario is a crock. You have to have "certified" installers do it. And it costs like $50,000 for a decent setup. Now, ready for it??? You don't get any of the power. Any energy produced by a private citizen in Ontario have to be feed directly back into the grid, which you are paid for, then you just buy it back during normal usage...

 

They only way to do it is install everything yourself and power say a hot water heater and maybe a fridge. Otherwise it is vary dangerous trying to tie it into you main house feed as it is all DC.

 

Jee, I wonder why they aren't catching on?

 

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Ya, I am planning to pick one up for the "folding" closet. 

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