How much power is my CPU using?

[Frankieanime158]

I've got an FX-6300, at 4.4ghz with 1.34v. The cpus TDP is 95w, since I'm overclocked, I'm using more then 95w right? How would I find the amps? Then it would be easier to find wattage

Sorry, just curious about electricity consumption a bit and measuring all my devices in my home for lolz  

[Droidbot]

Get a Kill-a-watt plug-in power usage meter. Take out your GPU and power sucking devices in your system and plug your PC in. 

Minus 20w or so for RAM. bam, that's how much that sucker is using

[Guest]

HWMonitor should show?

[zMeul]

if really want to measure the power draw for the CPU alone, get one of those clamp Ammeters (they can be expensive as fuck) and put it on the 8pin EPS cable - that 12V rail only supplies voltage to the CPU

[typographie]

You'd probably need some fairly sophisticated equipment to measure exactly the amperage and wattage of the CPU. Some CPU reviews provide power data, but it's usually power consumption for the entire system (with the CPU being the variable between controlled systems). I can't find any Vishera launch reviews that measured CPU power draw independently of the rest of the PC.

 

Your CPU was probably already drawing somewhat more than 95 Watts under load at stock, just because TDP is not precisely the same thing as expected power consumption. It'll be a little more than that when overclocked, as well.

[Frankieanime158]

Not looking for exact numbers, it's not really important. Just having fun looking at all my stuff like my heater, fans etc. and looks at consumption.. Eventually my CPU crossed my mind  I thought tdp was a literal maximum wattage a cpu would allow. But now I know otherwise, so thanks for that  

[GitGud]

 

 

Wont be apples to apples, but should give a close approximation. Skip to 1.18

[Guest]

voltage is still low, I would imagine around ~130w at most.