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Digging Into the Electrical Cost of PC Gaming
New submitter MBAFK writes "My coworker Geoff and I have been taking power meters home to see what the true cost of PC gaming is. Not just the outlay for hardware and software, but what the day-to-day costs really are. If you assume a 20 hour a week habit, and using $0.11 a KWH, actually playing costs Geoff $30.83 a year. If Geoff turns his PC off when he is not using it, he could save $66 a year."
Meanwhile the Geoff and his coworker discuss these types atrocities at their daily meeting at Starbucks while sipping on their third expresso.
I've got 101 mod points and you can't have them!
i can't play video games anymore since i'm running a bitcoint mining operation with my graphics card. it's pretty expensive to run.
If they were using Free Trade Watts, it wouldn't be an issue.
Indeed, I scrap my hardware every 2 months so that I can be absolutely sure that I'm saving money and preserving the environment.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Sure you can still play. You just feed in quarters at double or triple the rate of the rest of us.