Your PCs actual power consumption
Page 1 of 1
Stige




Posts: 3544
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 12:40    Post subject: Your PCs actual power consumption
Just bought one of those wall outlet thingys that you plug your stuff into and it tells you the power consumption, was curious how much power my shit actually takes Smile

Stuff that goes through that one plug:
- PC+Monitor
- AVR (With 2 speakers+subwoofer on it)
- Modem + Wireless Router

"Night" consumption, I just turn the display off for night, everything else stays on: ~150W, it's ~130W if I turn the AVR and Modem/Router off aswell.
"Surfing" consumption: ~200W
The display itself seems to add about 30W to the consumption and browsing the interwebs adds another ~20W or so.

IntelBurnTest Standard: ~340W
FurMark: ~397W
IBT+FurMark: ~442W Peaks

FurMark seems to put first core under 100% load aswell so that is why the difference is so little propably between just FurMark or FurMark+IBT.
Those are some extreme numbers, just for comparison purposes Smile

My PSU is 80Plus Platinum, pretty much the most efficient you can get on the market.

Anyone else got one of these toys for some numbers?

EDIT: Other tests
- Watching a HDTV episode: ~240-250W


Last edited by Stige on Tue, 20th Aug 2013 14:20; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
rgb#000
Banned



Posts: 5118

PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 13:47    Post subject:
aren't you interested in power consumption when gaming? benchmarks you run for a minute or two so it hardly matters.
Back to top
Stige




Posts: 3544
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 13:51    Post subject:
rgb#000 wrote:
aren't you interested in power consumption when gaming? benchmarks you run for a minute or two so it hardly matters.


Kinda hard to watch the outlet while playing games at the same time heh

I guess I could put something like 3DMark11 running and take some numbers from it during the combined test, propably close to real world gaming usage.

Don't have any too heavy games installed either that I could use for testing :l

The numbers are mostly so there is something to compare against, will take some gaming numbers later when I get some friend over so he can play and I can note down some numbers!
Back to top
Newty182




Posts: 10805
Location: UK
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 15:46    Post subject:
http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87766

Edit: Had an i7 930, X58, 6GB RAM and 2x GTX 460s then.

Edit2: I actually had my 670 then, not 460s.


Ryzen 5 5600, ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WIFI II, Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 32GB 3600MHz C16, MSI RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X OC , Corsair RMx Series RM750x. AOC AGON AG324UX - 4K 144Hz 1ms


Last edited by Newty182 on Tue, 20th Aug 2013 20:29; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
BearishSun




Posts: 4484

PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 16:34    Post subject:
I know my night consumption...0 because I turn it off
Back to top
Stige




Posts: 3544
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 20:19    Post subject:
Newty182 wrote:
http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87766

Edit: Had an i7 930, X58, 6GB RAM and 2x GTX 460s then.


Proves pretty well how wrong some people are when they think they need a 1000W PSU for anything lol
Back to top
Breezer_




Posts: 10806
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 20:21    Post subject:
Stige wrote:
Newty182 wrote:
http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87766

Edit: Had an i7 930, X58, 6GB RAM and 2x GTX 460s then.


Proves pretty well how wrong some people are when they think they need a 1000W PSU for anything lol


My friend fried HX1000 with i7 930 and GTX 480 SLI. CPU was 4.3Ghz and the 480s @ 900 core both Very Happy
Back to top
Stige




Posts: 3544
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 20:25    Post subject:
Breezer_ wrote:
Stige wrote:
Newty182 wrote:
http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87766

Edit: Had an i7 930, X58, 6GB RAM and 2x GTX 460s then.


Proves pretty well how wrong some people are when they think they need a 1000W PSU for anything lol


My friend fried HX1000 with i7 930 and GTX 480 SLI. CPU was 4.3Ghz and the 480s @ 900 core both Very Happy


I doubt that had anything to do with actualy power consumption of the system itself.
Even with FurMark and stuff that setup shouldn't get anywhere near 1000W :l

It's not even multi-rail apparently so couldn't have been overloading a single line either :l
Back to top
Breezer_




Posts: 10806
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 20:59    Post subject:
Stige wrote:
Breezer_ wrote:
Stige wrote:


Proves pretty well how wrong some people are when they think they need a 1000W PSU for anything lol


My friend fried HX1000 with i7 930 and GTX 480 SLI. CPU was 4.3Ghz and the 480s @ 900 core both Very Happy


I doubt that had anything to do with actualy power consumption of the system itself.
Even with FurMark and stuff that setup shouldn't get anywhere near 1000W :l

It's not even multi-rail apparently so couldn't have been overloading a single line either :l


The first model was multi-rail.
Back to top
Werelds
Special Little Man



Posts: 15098
Location: 0100111001001100
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 21:14    Post subject:
There is no second model. There's only ever been one HX1000 and it was indeed multi-rail.

The current one and its predecessor are 1050.

And you underestimate just how bad GF100 was Stige. A single-card system like that (first-generation Nehalem 130W CPU, don't forget about that one either) can already sit somewhere between 600 and 650W without overclocking the GPU. Add a second card to that for another cool 300-400W depending on load (SLI scaling sucked for Nvidia back then, so it'll rarely get to full load).

But then you enter the realm of overclocking on a chip that already requires a lot of juice; and if you know anything about chips, you know that the power consumption curve is an exponential and not a linear one. So once you start overclocking a 480....
Back to top
Breezer_




Posts: 10806
Location: Finland
PostPosted: Tue, 20th Aug 2013 21:35    Post subject:
I had 6-core Phenom II @ 4.2Ghz and Reference 480 @ 850 core, the noise, the heat, it made my HX650W fan spin Very Happy
Back to top
Page 1 of 1 All times are GMT + 1 Hour
NFOHump.com Forum Index - Hardware Zone
Signature/Avatar nuking: none (can be changed in your profile)  


Display posts from previous:   

Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB 2.0.8 © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group