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Author: Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss
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CC: Austin Godber
Subject: Re: cost to operate.
60 W sounds possible. I have a fairly beefy videocard GTX1080Ti, on my
machine, it idles at about 57W, spikes up to maybe 180 W when doing
something computationally difficult.

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 10:22 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
> wrote:

>
> Based on what we have been discussing I assume my 400 watt power supply
> may be drawing much less power based on actual usage. Therefore maybe
> my computer might only be using 60 watts... making the cost lower.
>
> Your thoughts.
>
>
>
> On 2021-07-22 21:39, Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I usually use a mental rule of thumb that for every watt of 24/7/365
> > power consumption costs about $1 per year. Obviously this is failing
> > as electric rates keep going up. So to first order of magnitude a 100
> > watt server would cost around $100 a year, but if the server was using
> > the whole 400 watts it would cost more like $400 a year.
> >
> >>> If my home web server is using 100 watts an hour that mean 100
> > watts *>> 30 days * 24 hours or 72K watts.
> >>>
> >>> I'm thinking 72 * .1085 = $7.81 a month.
> >
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