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    Quote Originally Posted by Fear View Post
    Also on the power note, I've calculated FFXIV to cost me around 1.5pence an hour to run (in £) which is not much really.

    My system runs a 650Watt PSU with around 500Watt usage during FFXIV.

    So even the most hardcore systems would only eat about 4pence an hour, thats £28.80 a month if you stayed online 24/7 for 30 days.
    Can I ask who your electricity provider is? You're either on some insanely cheap tariff or your maths is flawed. If it's the former then I want to be switching to them.

    If your pc is eating 500watts and you run it 24/7 then your using 12kwh a day or 360kwh a month.
    If it's really costing you 1.5p per hour then your paying just £0.03/kwh.

    I'm pretty sure there isn't any provider in the UK that's even remotely close to that cheap. The cheapest I've seen is about 10.8p per kwh electric (I assume your in the UK as you're using english currency)

    So I would estimate that using that 10.8p/kwh price your 500w pc would be costing you about 5.4p per hour to run.

    But to go back to the maths for a second. If your maths is right that 360kw/h a month would cost you just £10.80 a month to run your pc 24/7
    However when you look at Uswitch.com or something similar a quick look will tell you the cheapest UK tarifs are about 10.8p/kwh hour so that 360kwh would cost about £38.88 a month to run a 500 watt system 24/7.

    The option is that maybe your pc power usage is actually only about 135-140 Watts which again seems kinda low but I don't know what system you run so I really can't theorise your actual power usage.
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    Last edited by Dzian; 05-31-2012 at 01:15 AM.