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Digging Into the Electrical Cost of PC Gaming

Posted by timothy on from the with-compound-interest-you'll-die-rich-in-nazeroth dept.

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."

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  1. Re:PC gaming? by 0123456 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Running PC games can easily take 300-500W with a high-end graphics card. Posting on Facebook probably uses 30-50W on a modern desktop PC (plus whatever the monitor uses in both cases).

  2. Re:PC gaming? by 0123456 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but the article was specifically about saving money by turning your computer off when you're not using it.

    A high-end gaming GPU might use 50-100W when rendering the desktop. Integrated graphics... don't.