What is your computers idle power consumption

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

My power consumption while in windows is between 65 and 105 watts depending on what im doing. It's usually around 80 while browsing in firefox and sits at 65 just after startup.

My spec

i3 2120 with stock cooler
6870
Asus P8Z68-V LX
Corsair vx550
2x4gb 1333mhz ram
Raptor X 150gb 10,000rpm

Would be interesting to find out what other systems use.

suraswami · Jan 21, 2012

180 Watts idle, 450W peak while gaming!

Mussels · Jan 21, 2012

80W for desktop, 13W for laptop.

Arctucas · Jan 21, 2012

With all the peripherals unplugged/turned off, ~315W, according to my UPS.

With the peripherals plugged in/turned on, ~430W.

I have seen it hit ~775W while gaming.

TRWOV · Jan 21, 2012

How can you know? Or did everybody buy a kill-a-watt when I wasn't looking?

Arctucas · Jan 21, 2012

I have a http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=P11VT3 with everything plugged into it, plugged into my http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1500LCD.

I am reading what the UPS says is the power usage.

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

I use this

http://www.prodigit.com/img/product/2000mu-01.jpg

Mussels · Jan 21, 2012

TRWOV said:
How can you know? Or did everybody buy a kill-a-watt when I wasn't looking?

yup. you can get cheap versions at supermarkets here in Au for about $30, every man and his dog has a power meter now.

i do everything i can to keep power bills low here, and it pays off rather well.

edit: hahaha, i have the same one as Spixel! i even need to use a UK to Au socket converter to make it work XD

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

Mussels said:
yup. you can get cheap versions at supermarkets here in Au for about $30, every man and his dog has a power meter now.

i do everything i can to keep power bills low here, and it pays off rather well.

edit: hahaha, i have the same one as Spixel! i even need to use a UK to Au socket converter to make it work XD

LAN_deRf_HA · Jan 21, 2012

153w with the monitor, 124w without.

Mussels · Jan 21, 2012

an interesting test for you guys who play with Vsync off: turn it on, and compare your power consumption in game.

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

My monitor uses 33 watt on default settings, put the brightness down and its 18.

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

Mussels said:
an interesting test for you guys who play with Vsync off: turn it on, and compare your power consumption in game.

Should it be lower or higher? Have you tried it.

Gzero · Jan 21, 2012

spixel said:
Should it be lower or higher? Have you tried it.

Would be lower, provided your graphics card can go over 30/60/whatever your refresh.

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

Gzero said:
Would be lower, provided your graphics card can go over 30/60/whatever your refresh.

Who has a monitor with a refresh rate of 30

Mussels · Jan 21, 2012

spixel said:
Who has a monitor with a refresh rate of 30

1080i HDTV's

seriously i'd rather let some of you guys test it and get back to me, i always find the reactions more interesting when people test it themselves

Vincy Boy · Jan 21, 2012

My Belkin power thingy is hovering around 127 watts as I type and is about 120 at idle. Gaming can go over 300.
Power use has become of great concern to me lately. The escalating costs here of energy was a major consideration in going to socket 1155. I have my 1366 parts "collecting dust". I'm even considering putting together a system with a single GDDR5 GT 240 and a 32nm Pentium 1156 CPU as my mainstay system and only using this one for gaming sessions.

spixel · Jan 21, 2012

Mussels said:
1080i HDTV's

seriously i'd rather let some of you guys test it and get back to me, i always find the reactions more interesting when people test it themselves

I'll try it later. Have taken the monitor out and don't want to restart my pc. Would you get the same result by capping the fps with a console command?

Mussels · Jan 21, 2012

spixel said:
I'll try it later. Have taken the monitor out and don't want to restart my pc. Would you get the same result by capping the fps with a console command?

anything that caps your FPS would work, yes. most telling is in older games where your FPS shoots up pretty high when not capped.

Maban · Jan 21, 2012

I'm idling at 163W. About 550W while folding.

BlackOmega · Jan 21, 2012

I'd say around 150w@idle. I have my whole powerstrip plugged in to my killawatt meter figure my.monitor draws 45w, speakers 15w, then the router and modem.
Actually its probably less than 150 at idle. More like 130w.

mm67 · Jan 21, 2012

My SB system uses 95 W without display, old i7-930 @ 4.2 Ghz uses 135 W.

Jetster · Jan 21, 2012

Im going to have to buy one and see

entropy13 · Jan 21, 2012

I have no f**king idea. Anyone out there with similar specs and a Watt-O-Meter or something there?

RE: V-Sync/FPS limit

All I know is that the temps are way lower with it on. Especially important in not exactly graphics-heavy games like NBA 2K12 and FIFA12 where they are needlessly making at least 200fps (and gets things warmer inside the case) with no fps limits.

AsRock · Jan 21, 2012

Intel system 93w-120 idle ( with the old maximus motherboard it was 40-50w more ).

AMD system 95w using the onboard v card

i5 17" Laptop around 38w

Mussels said:
1080i HDTV's

seriously i'd rather let some of you guys test it and get back to me, i always find the reactions more interesting when people test it themselves

Another i like doing is checking in game menu's. For example Skyrim on my system will go to idle system usage when the journal is on.

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What is your computers idle power consumption

spixel

suraswami

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Arctucas

TRWOV

Arctucas

spixel

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

spixel

LAN_deRf_HA

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

spixel

spixel

Gzero

spixel

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Vincy Boy

spixel

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Maban

BlackOmega

mm67

Jetster

entropy13

AsRock

TPU addict

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