PCs have different power usage depending on maker and parts. I have an M1 Mac Mini on 24/7 and honestly it doesn’t make much of a difference at all because of how power efficient it is. But there are PCs with more power hungry CPUs or GPUs.
Things like the fridge and A/C and IH stove dwarf it in energy consumption.
5000-6000 yen/month for 300W average 24/7 (in kyushu)
“for plex” wouldn’t it make more sense to use some embedded thing for that purpose, instead of a full-fat PC? (no idea what people actually use plex for, I just play media off a file share)
It will depend a lot on the parts.
My core i7 5820k and 980 ti uses 90W on idle and 500W on full load.
If I leave it on 24/7 on idle, it would probably cost 7000 yen.
My PC is running around 12 hours per day. It cost on average 800y per month. It’s an APU that I use for work and light gaming.
So I guess that would be around 1600 if I kept it running 24 hours? I’m on Eneos denki, but there’s not much difference between energy companies.
I bought a measuring device and my desktop PC without monitors typically consumes around 200watt when not running heavy gpu application. each monitor about 30watt. my desktop has RTX gpu, 5 HDD, 2 SDD, 1 NVME. average electricity cost is around 37yen per kwh
If your streaming things locally and not transcoding, you can use a raspberry pi to host plex for really cheap electricity cost
get a plugin watt meter and multiply that with your Wh rates
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PCs have different power usage depending on maker and parts. I have an M1 Mac Mini on 24/7 and honestly it doesn’t make much of a difference at all because of how power efficient it is. But there are PCs with more power hungry CPUs or GPUs.
Things like the fridge and A/C and IH stove dwarf it in energy consumption.
5000-6000 yen/month for 300W average 24/7 (in kyushu)
“for plex” wouldn’t it make more sense to use some embedded thing for that purpose, instead of a full-fat PC? (no idea what people actually use plex for, I just play media off a file share)
It will depend a lot on the parts.
My core i7 5820k and 980 ti uses 90W on idle and 500W on full load.
If I leave it on 24/7 on idle, it would probably cost 7000 yen.
My PC is running around 12 hours per day.
It cost on average 800y per month.
It’s an APU that I use for work and light gaming.
So I guess that would be around 1600 if I kept it running 24 hours?
I’m on Eneos denki, but there’s not much difference between energy companies.
I bought a measuring device and my desktop PC without monitors typically consumes around 200watt when not running heavy gpu application. each monitor about 30watt. my desktop has RTX gpu, 5 HDD, 2 SDD, 1 NVME. average electricity cost is around 37yen per kwh
If your streaming things locally and not transcoding, you can use a raspberry pi to host plex for really cheap electricity cost
get a plugin watt meter and multiply that with your Wh rates