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i have my mum on my back about electricity bills lol help!!
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7. April 2008 @ 09:54 |
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okay lol well the title says it all. I have been stoped playing my pc because my mum belives that my computer has been puting her bills up and well she has a 32 inch lcd she has had on most of the day aswell.As i feel its a bit unfair that its just my pc, it could be other machines in the house? I have a 450w supply and well before i had a 250 watt but i was on that for some time. i got adicted to wow and was playing that for hours so that probs make sence and that was with an older pc. But with this new computer i have hardly been on it and i realy want to get back on crysis how can i explan to her its jut not my pc? are they psu's that are good for energy are there ways to prevent my pc from being a golbal warming machine but still have the power to play the latest games?
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7. April 2008 @ 10:56 |
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The typical high-end gaming PC uses 200W under load (based on a 75% overclocked CPU, 4GB of RAM, 2 hard drives and a Radeon HD3870 GPU), and the monitor about 50W. A 30" LCD TV uses around 120W.
More importantly though, using an electric oven for half an hour uses as much electricity as a gaming PC does when gaming for 10+ hours.
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7. April 2008 @ 11:57 |
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hmm thanks for the reply sam, oh yeah and i forgot to tell you. my house is bad for damp so we have 2 dehumidafiers running all day.. could this lead to the high bill? also does biigger ur psu the more watts its going to take from mains?
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7. April 2008 @ 12:04 |
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Here's a chart you can show your Mum.
Shows power consumption of various size tv's.
If Her TV is on all day, she's using as much if not more power than you are.
Make her a deal, when your pc is on, her TV is on and when your pc is off Her TV goes off. (I know that'll never fly LOL)
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6475_7-6400401-3.html
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7. April 2008 @ 12:12 |
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7. April 2008 @ 12:24 |
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No, what that means it has a 80% efficiency rating, From what I understand this means for every 100 watts used, 80 watts goes to your pc, only 20% of the power is lost.
Seasonic makes good PSU's, but not that good.
Glad the chart helped.
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7. April 2008 @ 13:01 |
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No matter how big a PSU you have, your power bill won't increase. The power figure on a PSU is an "up to" figure, not a "how much it uses" figure.
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7. April 2008 @ 15:26 |
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ah thanks again guys you have answered my quesiton well and well i have sorta persuaded my mum to let me go on lol.. god sake im 19 and i cant go on my pc haha how funny thanks
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7. April 2008 @ 15:37 |
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NP friend
Were all here to help each other.
Have fun gaming.
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7. April 2008 @ 15:55 |
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Heh, I'm 19 as well, and my parents are forever moaning about it when I'm home, but they don't really intend to stop me. I live in a student house term-time so I can do as I please with my PC.
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9. April 2008 @ 11:42 |
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Get yourself one of these and by using a multi-way extension lead you can exactly monitor and prove the power usage of your system over any number of hours, you can then do the same on the humidifiers and show where the real culprit is.
http://www.ecofreak.co.uk/products/19/58...gy-Monitor.html
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9. April 2008 @ 12:39 |
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Very intetresting, Do you know if you can get these in Canada?
P.S. my vote for the culprits are those two dehumidifiers going all the time.
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9. April 2008 @ 13:42 |
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I just found these available in Canada, I think I'm going to order a couple of these units.
I be very interested to see what my computer uses in a day.
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9. April 2008 @ 15:38 |
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They're quite useful to have anyway, so its a good purchase.
I've got a couple I use now and then.
At least then you take any guess work out of it and can present some facts.
I agree its probably those units causing the big bill.
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9. April 2008 @ 15:46 |
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Humidifers use hardly any power. DEhumidifers use loads - estimate at around 1KW for the pair, versus your PC's few hundred. I think you're off the hook... ;-)
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9. April 2008 @ 17:08 |
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Now he just has to convince his Mum, and as we all know thats the hard part.
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10. April 2008 @ 19:39 |
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Hey sorry for long reply guys as you may know i have no pc lol and well its hard to get on the internet these days LOL :( hmm that moniter thing sounds intresting.. but guess what my mum and now my my DAD has come into this battle and bought a monitor that analysis all the electiric in the house.. Now i put it on lol and yeah guess what? mine was the most in power usage but i dunno if its a fair source, if i use one of those monitors that bigdk mentioned i could argue my case?
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10. April 2008 @ 20:06 |
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Sounds unlikely, but what are they comparing it to?
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10. April 2008 @ 20:12 |
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well at the moment they are comparing it to this electriacal device called a flavawave.. dunno if you know what they are but its besicly a electrical oven, and they are comparing it with again the 32 inch tv lcd. its really anoying though because it has made me so weary to go on my pc, when i have it again lol had probablems with a gigabtye board this time it was the gigabyte p35c-ds3r kept on rebooting on its self.. got the rma code to send it back thats 3 motherboards now :(
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10. April 2008 @ 20:23 |
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lol are you sure it's the motherboard?
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10. April 2008 @ 20:26 |
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postive.. the board was running well for a couple of days.. i was runing vista 32 bit just to mention but all of a sudden it just started to turn off, (not crash) just switch off. so went looking around and i found out that gigabyte shipped out a bad batch of these boards and my luck i got one lol :(
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10. April 2008 @ 20:34 |
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Fair enough, unlucky...
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11. April 2008 @ 16:20 |
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That sucks about the board, I know quite a few people who have them and they all love them.
Even Sammorris has one.
Ahhh well every company make bad one's once in awhile.
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12. April 2008 @ 09:19 |
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even i am facing the same issue.when it comes to electricity my parents go crazy nd start screaming at me saying why the hell is your comp switched on all the time.my dad just came to know that i got 600watts psu and he is like u better stop running it the whole time and the various things.what i want to know is that do really comp consume hell lot of elecrticity if its swtiched on 24*7.my pc is practically running for games day and night
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12. April 2008 @ 09:32 |
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yeah i no i started to love the board for a couple of days and then it did that to me :( i really do like the evga 780i but then again its nforce and i av had many probs with them with the asus versions. and its nice to know that i am not the only one with parents complaining about electricitry!!
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