Swap to Titanium Given Fuel Prices

[Nick980]

Given that here in the UK energy bills are predicted to increase by 150% by next year and our Government doesn't see this as an issue I'm wondering if swapping my current PSU to a Titanium rated one would be a good investment and hopefully reduce my energy usage.

Current PSU is a Corsair RM1000X which is 80+ Gold with a 3800XT CPU and 6800XT GPU

[SavageNeo]

if you game on yoru pc you probably save 1 euro per month

[GuiltySpark_]

I think you may be heavily overestimating the difference in your monthly bill that's going to make. 

[--SID--]

You better invest your titanium money in solar panels

[Rexper]

First, if you're going to compare PSU efficiency you should ignore the 80+ system and instead use Cybenetics.

 

Generally, a Cybenetics Titanium rated PSU performs about 92% efficient while gold is 88% (115V). Though, your RM1000x is actually a platinum PSU with overall 91% efficiency on 240V. A Titanium Corsair AX1600i is overall 94% efficient on 240V

 

At full load your system can consume about 400W (100W from the CPU, 300W from the GPU.

 

I don't know anything about UK electricity prices, so in this example I'll assume it'll rise to 40 p /kWh.

 

For every hour of full system load, you'd save:

400w/1kw * (1/0.91 - 1/0.94) * 40p = 0.56p/hour.

So if you run your pc at full load everyday for 3h/day you'd only save £6.14.

I think you already know how expensive titanium PSUs are too.

 

TLDR - Your PSU is already very efficient and upgrading it is probably not a good investment.