question about my pc power usage

[zackary2314]

so i have a i3 10100F and a gtx 1650 Super. how much wattage does these draw if im playing games for around 10 hours a day. and leave it idle for 2. 

 

[Levent]

Best option is getting one of these and measuring. Intel CPUs have a much better power management system particularly in idle, so I would estimate your system to consume less than 90w at idle (without considering your monitor power usage) and I would expect it to consume around 250w at load (this is where getting that killawatt would yield much better results). 2.5kWh for gaming and 0.18kWh during idle is what I would estimate it would consume. Then again this is argument has a LOT of unknowns and in reality its probably lower. I also suck at maths and I might be confusing units.

[mariushm]

Your video card goes up to 100w when gaming, around 8w in windows, maybe around 10w when playing videos on youtube.

The cpu consumes maybe 25w when in windows, typing a document in Word or watching Youtube. In gaming using all the cores, goes maybe up to around 70-80w

Heavily overclocked, maybe you can get it over 100 watts.

Your monitor consumes 40-60w , more if it's higher than 27" and with high brightness.

Speakers if you're not using headphones, add 10-20w for a basic stereo kit.

My Logitech x-540 5.1 system eats around 30-40w even at low volume.

 

So a mix of cpu and video card for gaming, let's say overall your system won't consume more than 250 watts and idle let's go with 100w ... you have a total of 2500 + 200 = 2700 watts  or 2.7 kWh  

The price of electricity varies, it's something like $0.1 to $0.5 for 1kWh, so you're probably paying around half a dollar to a dollar in your local currency for that usage.

 

[zackary2314]

do u know how much wattage it uses when its downloading all night

[mariushm]

Downloading requires very little CPU power, and your network card consumes very little, something like 1-2 watts.  Your hard drive or SSD will also remain active, so it will consume something like 5w for a hard drive, 1-2w for a SSD.

Basically, your cpu should lower the clocks of all cores to nearly minimum, so your cpu will consume very little, maybe something like 10-20w. The video card does nothing, with the monitor being turned off, so just say 5w for the card being idle, doing nothing.

 

I'd assume around 40-50w of power consumption with your computer sitting there doing nothing but downloading some stuff.

 

Like one of the poster above said, get one of those power meters that you can put between the wall socket and the power cable going to your computer, it will display the instant power consumption but can also measure how much power  (in kWh) was consumed over time, over let's say 24 hours.

They're cheap at 10-30$ and well worth the money, you'd be able to use it for decades and give it to your kids as inheritance.

[LogicalDrm]

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