£1100 powerful but energy efficient PC

[MadManMarsBar]

so for a while now my dad and my bro has been moaning at me because my PC likes to drink electricity too much , so im going to sell it to fund a new PC build, but i have no idea what is considered 'energy efficient' so thats where you guys come in , the PC will be used for content creation ( Cinema4D etc ) and heavy gaming, im loctaed in the uk and i normally but from amazon but i am open to other sellers

 

thanks in advance

[SAV1OUR]

OS?

peripherals?

 

also there is no "power efficient pc" its just your family arguing over nothing

[MadManMarsBar]

OS?

peripherals?

no OS and i already has peripherals

[JoshM]

so for a while now my dad and my bro has been moaning at me because my PC likes to drink electricity too much , so im going to sell it to fund a new PC build, but i have no idea what is considered 'energy efficient' so thats where you guys come in , the PC will be used for content creation ( Cinema4D etc ) and heavy gaming, im loctaed in the uk and i normally but from amazon but i am open to other sellers

 

thanks in advance

How much power is it drawing? I have never heard of anyone complaining about how much a pc uses power wise, just turn it off at the wall when you don't use it if your are that tight? 

[MadManMarsBar]

How much power is it drawing? 

not measured exactly but its drinking about £1.20 a day , £8.40 a week

[Ivyk]

Are you like using 100 1200W PSU at full power?

[JoshM]

not measured exactly but its drinking about £1.20 a day , £8.40 a week

His it using like 10x 2000000w psu's?

[SAV1OUR]

no OS and i already has peripherals

here but tell your family to be quite there is no power efficient pc 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU:  Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£215.99 @ Aria PC)

CPU Cooler:  Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£82.92 @ Scan.co.uk)

Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£131.98 @ Amazon UK)

Memory:  Kingston Beast 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£111.18 @ CCL Computers)

Storage:  Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£58.79 @ Amazon UK)

Storage:  Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£33.59 @ Aria PC)

Video Card:  EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card  (£359.74 @ Scan.co.uk)

Case:  Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.39 @ Aria PC)

Power Supply:  Corsair RM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£78.00 @ Aria PC)

Total: £1160.58

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-15 09:11 BST+0100)

[MadManMarsBar]

His it using like 10x 2000000w psu's?

no just a simple CX750m , 8350 + 660 SLi

[Ivyk]

not measured exactly but its drinking about £1.20 a day , £8.40 a week

 

Then electricity must be very expansive where you live. Don't think you're PC should be able to cost that much with a 750W PSU.

[JoshM]

no just a simple CX750m , 8350 + 660 SLi

Wow you must have expensive electricity, well what does he use the pc for?

[SirRoderick]

Well if electricity costs are a big thing then go for a platinum PSU I suppose. Or at least a gold. Anything else just draws on that and won't make a huge difference. Stick a 780 in there and an intel CPU and you're good to go.

[MadManMarsBar]

Wow you must have expensive electricity, well what does he use the pc for?

Content creation and gaming most of the day with friends

[JoshM]

Content creation and gaming most of the day with friends

Well unless he wants a Pentium and a 750ti running off a 300w psu, you aren't going to save much power. 

[MadManMarsBar]

Well unless he wants a Pentium and a 750ti running off a 300w psu, you aren't going to save much power. 

exactly what i said but they just keep moaning , i wanted to change to intel anyway so i though why not , at least then i can show them there wont be much difference

[Paralectic]

80+ Platinum with passive cooling everywhere and no airflow, but would be useless lol.

[brownninja97]

exactly what i said but they just keep moaning , i wanted to change to intel anyway so i though why not , at least then i can show them there wont be much difference

honestly all you can do is get a new cpu/mobo and then maybe a 80+gold psu, not really much you can do.

[brownninja97]

exactly what i said but they just keep moaning , i wanted to change to intel anyway so i though why not , at least then i can show them there wont be much difference

Do you turn off your pc at night? Throw it on standby whenever you arent using it, turn your monitors and speakers off. Your should be able to get it under a £1 at any rate that is way too fucking high, i think someone is fucking with you as that cannot be correct, not even close, i have a 650w psu and i play quite a lot and its barely £2 per week, im in london as well.

[Erik4boss]

This would be super stupid to do, but here is a super power efficient computer

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

 

CPU:  Intel Core i7-4770S 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£215.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard:  MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£65.84 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory:  Patriot Viper 3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£104.99 @ Aria PC) 

Storage:  Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£82.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£82.33 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card:  EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  (£110.82 @ Ebuyer) 

Case:  Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  (£45.90 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply:  Antec EarthWatts Platinum 650W 80+ Platinum Certified ATX Power Supply  (£85.31 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £794.17

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-15 09:37 BST+0100)

[hehehehhehehehe]

Wait for the 800 series if you're desperate and if that's an option, Maxwell should be getting a MASSIVE bump in energy efficiency.

[FMA]

exactly what i said but they just keep moaning , i wanted to change to intel anyway so i though why not , at least then i can show them there wont be much difference

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3s2XH

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3s2XH/by_merchant/

Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3s2XH/benchmarks/

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570S 2.9GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£139.76 @ Ebuyer) 

Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£54.37 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card  (£359.74 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Power Supply: Corsair RM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£78.00 @ Aria PC) 

Total: £631.87

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-15 09:48 BST+0100)

 

The 780 will drain less power when idle and the 4570s is also low power. These are the only components you need and salvage the other parts from your old PC. the PSU is 80 plus gold but it wont make that uch difference and the mobo is the first one i saw haha

[squirrl]

- Cutting back on the heavy gaming will reducing it considerably more than any change in hardware.

- Use a single card. 

- Use a Haswell (Or above) CPU. That will reduce power draw by a bit, and a lot when it's idle.

- Get low voltage RAM (small power reduction there)

- Get a platinum efficiency PSU that runs without the fan. You'll be looking at about a 600/700w psu for it to be running most of the time without the fan turning on, or go for a more expensive one that is totally passive but less wattage.

- Turn down the brightness on your monitor.

- Use a single large hard drive + SSD, or just a single large SSD.

- Underclock your CPU and GPU slightly. This shouldn't impact much in noticable performance, but the cost will go down by a bit.

 

You can do quite a few of those things without getting a new PC, and see how much you save. You could probably see first hand by getting one of those power measurers that you plug into the wall and it says how much power the devices plugged in are drawing.