Very high Power Usage

[sebastianwaaler]

I always get very high power usage on my Pc. Even just watching a video on YT has a a very high usage. Should i upgrade my PSU --> what should i update to?

 

MY PC:

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 AERO OC - 12GB GDDR6X

NZXT n7 z590 lga1200

intel i7-10700

4x Corsair vengeance ddr4 rgb 8GB 3600Mhz

2TB Corsair MP600 Core XT

Corsair CX750F

NZXT Z73

10x Corsair QL120

 

i Have a corsair icue 5000X QL edition. What is the best layout for the fans. Maybe that is the problem?

 

 

 

[Poinkachu]

2 minutes ago, sebastianwaaler said:

I always get very high power usage on my Pc. Even just watching a video on YT has a a very high usage. Should i upgrade my PSU --> what should i update to?

 

MY PC:

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 AERO OC - 12GB GDDR6X

NZXT n7 z590 lga1200

intel i7-10700

4x Corsair vengeance ddr4 rgb 8GB 3600Mhz

2TB Corsair MP600 Core XT

Corsair CX750F

NZXT Z73

10x Corsair QL120

 

 

 

 

 

Define "High"

 

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i Have a corsair icue 5000X QL edition. What is the best layout for the fans. Maybe that is the problem?

No. Unless you consider extra 5-10 watts high.

[Tetras]

How are you measuring the power usage?

 

What is the monitor that you're using?

 

What is "too much" for you?

 

5 minutes ago, sebastianwaaler said:

Should i upgrade my PSU --> what should i update to?

Usually the PSU's efficiency has a very small impact on power usage, just a few watts when at idle and desktop.

[Needfuldoer]

How are you measuring power consumption? A "Kill-a-Watt" type meter plugged between the outlet and your PC will give you an exact, real-time readout. 

 

If you want something power efficient for watching YouTube videos, get an ultra-small PC, used laptop, or tablet. You're not going to save much by just replacing your power supply.

[freak2fast4u]

I had a higher-than-normal power usage on my computer a while back. At first I chalked it up to my Intel Arc A770 having silly high idle power (40W T_T).

It also coincidentally turned out I had my PC plugged into a kill-a-watt meter to monitor how ASPM was behaving on that same subject, and it turns out it wasn't behaving good either so I disabled it entirely, but I digress.

 

I opened the task-manager and coincidentally had my eyes on my "kill-a-watt" meter, and noticed a sudden drop in wattage.

*That's odd*, I mumbled, and as I closed it, power usage went back up, an extra 35W. *scratching my head*

*repeat the operation* ... *same thing happens* ...

 

... tried using ProcessExplorer instead, and guess what I found ?

I had a rogue "Dlhost.exe" process (notice the spelling, I didn't make a typo, it wasn't dllhost) using roughly 30% CPU seemingly for nothing.

I killed it. It spawned itself again. It was controlled by a powershell script that would restart it automatically, and detected if taskmgr was running to hide itself.

 

Fun fact : it managed to register itself as an exception in windows defender, and indeed, windows defender didn't trip up.

As soon as I removed the exception, it started blasting notifications all over the place

 

I had a fun ride hunting that f**ker down.

Turns out it was an xmrig clone mining a sh*tcoin when my CPU was idle (at least the author had the courtesy of running it at low priority -_-)

 

Fun story aside, I'll side with the previous posters : how did you conclude you have a high power usage ?

what are you comparing with ? higher than a lamp ? yes, that's normal.

higher than your microwave on maximum power ? not so much indeed ...

 

 

[xAcid9]

If you talking about this

 

Ignore it.