cost to operate.

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I understand a little bit more, now.  Thanks!!

On 2021-07-23 11:02, Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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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>>> 
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>>> 
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