IronManForever
IronMan; Ready to Roll...
I have been looking at various places to get the rough estimate of the Power this system of mine would use up. My power bills have come more high than normal since 2-3 months. All this time, I have my PC on.
Most of the time, I don't do any heavy and demanding stuff on the PC. Its limited to surfing, downloading, reading stuff, etc.
I want to know how much power my System takes. (w/o monitor, speakers, etc)
This is the configuration..
- Intel Celeron D 2.26 GHz
- 2x512 MB DDR 400 MHz
- Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 128 MB
- ECS Via P4M800 Motherboard
- 80 GB IDE
- moser-baer SATA DVD+-RW DL
- Internal 56k Modem
- MM Keyboard + Mouse
- Chinese Low Quality 400 W PSU (It could be 250 W actually, they fake it).. These PSUs have very low effciency 70% or maybe even less. So a lot of power is lost..
MOST of the power tests (eg. from Thermaltake) that I have taken on the internet give on-load values. But when I am just surfing, and keeping it on for downloading at night, I think power usage will be much lower.
Basically I wanted to have a rough idea of power consumption during night, when the monitor is off.
Most of the time, I don't do any heavy and demanding stuff on the PC. Its limited to surfing, downloading, reading stuff, etc.
I want to know how much power my System takes. (w/o monitor, speakers, etc)
This is the configuration..
- Intel Celeron D 2.26 GHz
- 2x512 MB DDR 400 MHz
- Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 128 MB
- ECS Via P4M800 Motherboard
- 80 GB IDE
- moser-baer SATA DVD+-RW DL
- Internal 56k Modem
- MM Keyboard + Mouse
- Chinese Low Quality 400 W PSU (It could be 250 W actually, they fake it).. These PSUs have very low effciency 70% or maybe even less. So a lot of power is lost..
MOST of the power tests (eg. from Thermaltake) that I have taken on the internet give on-load values. But when I am just surfing, and keeping it on for downloading at night, I think power usage will be much lower.
Basically I wanted to have a rough idea of power consumption during night, when the monitor is off.