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Leave my pc on 24/7

How can I work out how much money per week/month/year it would cost to leave my PC powered on 24/7 for the whole year?


Answers on here please keep 'em clean
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Hi psd99
Have been asking myself the same question as I have three PCs
permanently crunching. Would not normally be bothered but our
fantastic (in the proper sense of the word) PM has started to take an extra £60 per month in tax out of my not enormous private pension. Have ordered a socket power monitor to check it all out and will post the results unless other members already know.
Cheers
peahouse05:mad:
 
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Hi All
Have tried a plug-in power monitor on my main PC,
crunching 24/7. The PC is Athlon 2.21 GHz. With CRT monitor on
it it uses 164W, but the monitor is only on for about an hour a day. Without the monitor the power is 116W. Over three days the average use is 2.8kW-h per day. This is approx 84kW-h per month. My npower supplier will charge from next week 11.99p per kW-h. So the cost per month is £10.19.
I have two PCs in my shed also crunching 24/7 and now checking their costs.
I think Gordon has done it again as the other two PCs are not that different so the saving on not crunching will be about half of the tax increase on my pension.
Seriously considering powering down!
Cheers
peahouse05:mad:
 
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Hi All
Three PCs crunching 24/7, Athlon 2.21GHz, Athlon 2.2GHz and Sempron 2.oGHz are costing a total of £24.74 per month. Will have to see what
the glove-puppet does to help the 10p tax losers like me in the Autumn budget statement. In the meantime will switch off the two in my shed.
Sorry but we are being governed by financial lunatics.
Cheers
peahouse05:wall:
 
Interesting readings there peahouse - thanks for the research :thumb: That's quite a bit to run them!

Don't worry if you need to shut down crunching PCs because of the cost, even if you just run the crunching app when you are using your PC's in general use helps
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Hi All
costing a total of £24.74 per month.
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Wow !!! That's a lot and ESPECIALLY if you're one of the 10p tax losers. I have a great deal of respect for you peahouse05 if you're shelling out that amount for medical research each month. :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:
 
Peahouse, you do what you can when you can, I already switched off two of mine some time ago.



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Hey Mucks,

I just joined the looney tunes gang.

Crunch crunch crunch.

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How much does it cost

Hi All
Thanks for your support.
Will carry on with main PC as suggested and switch off shed pcs.
Sorry to be political but what is it with Peter M returning to government
- he has fiddled mortgages, EU expenses and more unjustified wages than all the forum members earn in a year.
cheers
peahouse05:mad:
 
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peahouse05 said:
Hi All
Sorry to be political but what is it with Peter M returning to government
- he has fiddled mortgages, EU expenses and more unjustified wages than all the forum members earn in a year.
cheers
peahouse05:mad:
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Just shows what a shambles this Government is. Brown and Mandelson hate each other. How can it possibly work? :confused:
 
Urmas said:
Hey Mucks,

I just joined the looney tunes gang.

Crunch crunch crunch.

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I welcome you and thank you Urmus.

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So around £25 a month. That is roughly £300 a year. Isn't that a waste if you left it on 24/7 and only use it for 2 or 3 hours a day!?

Just think of all the other things like printers, speakers the list could go on. DAYMMM
 
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The major cost is not my use of the PCs but the 24/7 crunching. Didn't mind this when I felt things were fair, but extra costs on fuel, food, 10p tax rate has made being charitable impossible. This government takes do much tax that you cannot control what you do with disposable income (if any).
BTW I thought by now I would have been banned for political statements but to me it is only common sense.
Always looking on the positive- the waste heat from my two PCs in my shed keep all my tools and equipment free from condensation.
Question - would any New Labour MPs - most of whom have never had a proper job understand any of this.
I am a retired physics teacher and ex-engineer and for the last 18months have driven a private hire car on the school run with special needs pupils to make ends meet.
Crunching is fun and there is the (it shouldn't matter but it does factor).
Unfortunately this government, while championing choice, does the exact opposite in preventing us from deciding how to spend our money.
Quite prepared to be banned now.
Cheers
peahouse05
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The major cost is not my use of the PCs but the 24/7 crunching. Didn't mind this when I felt things were fair, but extra costs on fuel, food, 10p tax rate has made being charitable impossible. This government takes do much tax that you cannot control what you do with disposable income (if any).
BTW I thought by now I would have been banned for political staements but to me it is only common sense.
Always looking on the positive- the waste heat from my two PCs in my shed keep all my tools and equipment free from condensation.
Question - would any New Labour MPs - most of whom have never had a proper job understand any of this.
I am a retired physics teacher and for the last 18months have driven a private hire car on the school run with special needs pupils to make ends meet.
Crunching is fun and there is the (it shouldn't matter but it does) factor).
Unfortunately this government, while championing choice, does the exact the exact opposite im preventing us from deciding how to spend our money.
Quite prepared to be banned now.
Cheers
peahouse05
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Nobody's banning you peahouse, you're a welcome and valued member here.

We can all talk politics unless it degrades to name calling and stupidity.

If things do get out of hand we'll intervene for the sake of forum harmony.

I've made political statements myself, I'm disillusioned with the lot of 'em, to be quite honest.

Now, I don't look at myself as cynical but FWIW here's my view of the current state of play of British politics:

Gordon Brown should not be PM, when Blair resigned he should have done the decent thing and called an election.

Cameron is a Tory trying to make out he's cuddly and a regular bloke which he ain't - he's a Tory.

The Labour Party as was does not exist any more, they're the new Tories, which is why they've won three terms in office.

If the Lib Dems gained power it's a lottery as to what policies they'd adopt as I'm sure they haven't even got a clue themselves.

The Green party are well intentioned but naive fools.

The BNP need lining up against a wall.....

And that's Sir Flops' views on politics.

I've voted all my life, mostly for the same party (my Dad came from a family of Liverpool dockers so guess which one? ;) ) but I'm not going to vote until some party comes up with a viable set of policies which, hopefully, they'd keep if they gained power, although I know that's unlikely.

And yes, I know, by not voting I forfeit my right to criticise and comment on politics, really, but there ya go, I don't really care.

When the Tories win the next election don't expect fuel prices to fall cos it doesn't work like that.

And it's not only our Goverment that influence prices, take a look at the shifting world market, especially at oil.
 
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BTW I thought by now I would have been banned for political statements but to me it is only common sense.



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You're just saying what everybody else is thinking...They are not harmful statements in anyway..
 
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