Power!

[Brownfield1995]

I have a Corsair CX500.

I want to know how much power im using,

Is there anything that can tell me how much out of the PSU im using?

 

                             

 

 

 

                                                       Thanks!

[Wferr]

Kill-A-Watt P3 i use one you plug it  into then the wall and then your psu into it.

[ttam]

You will need a power meter. Something you plug your computer into and see how much it's using

[nightlitezzz]

Like the above two users said.

[MdX MaxX]

You can estimate it pretty well.  Take the TDP of your CPU and GPU, add them together, add a few more watts for drives and stuff, and you have a decent approximation of your load power usage.

 

If you have a normal single GPU setup chances are you're using maybe 400W at load.

[Brownfield1995]

You can estimate it pretty well.  Take the TDP of your CPU and GPU, add them together, add a few more watts for drives and stuff, and you have a decent approximation of your load power usage.

 

If you have a normal single GPU setup chances are you're using maybe 400W at load.

Processor (AMD FX-8350 CPU (8x 4.00GHz/8MB L2 Cache)))

 Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P -- FREE Upgrade to ASUS M5A97 R2.0))

Memory (8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module

 Radeon HD 7870 2GB - Single Card

Case Lighting (Cold Cathode Neon Light - Blue

  Processor Cooling (Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD] - Standard 120mm Fan))

 Primary Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))

  Optical Drive (24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black))

All that plus about 5 Chassis 120mm fans. 

 

What do you think?

[WoodenMarker]

Processor (AMD FX-8350 CPU (8x 4.00GHz/8MB L2 Cache)))

 Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P -- FREE Upgrade to ASUS M5A97 R2.0))

Memory (8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module

 Radeon HD 7870 2GB - Single Card

Case Lighting (Cold Cathode Neon Light - Blue

  Processor Cooling (Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD] - Standard 120mm Fan))

 Primary Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))

  Optical Drive (24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black))

All that plus about 5 Chassis 120mm fans. 

 

What do you think?

You need a meter. An estimation is not accurate.

For some idea though, the 8350 uses 85 watts at idle and the 7870 uses 12 watts.