Topic: Having trouble with Electricity Calculating (Read 175 times)
The only sure-fire way to assess your energy consumption is to use a kill-a-watt style receptacle power meter. Your power supply may be capable of a 850 Watt output but there's no such thing as a 100% efficient power supply so it's going to take more energy to produce that. In other words a 90% efficient power supply will consume 935W to give you a 850W output(never run a power supply at its absolute maximum value for extended periods). Calculation cannot be done by hand unless you know the power supplies' efficiency and even that should be something of a curve depending on your output, so there you go.
Hi I'm new to mining and just want to estimate my electric bill going up which my bill atm is 5.09 cents k/Wh.
I'm confused whether I should be calculating the power usage of my Gtx 1070ti at 180 watts (according to just googling I actually have no idea how to figure what I'm using) for 24 hours at my electric bill 5.09 cents a k/Wh which for 30 days is $6.69
or
should be estimating my full pc's psu which is 850 watts for 24 hours at my electric bill 5.09 cents a k/Wh which for 30 days is $31.60
Also if I reduce the power limit from 100% to 70% is that reducing the power wattage too so instead of 180 watts it would be 126 watts?
Thanks!
I'm confused whether I should be calculating the power usage of my Gtx 1070ti at 180 watts (according to just googling I actually have no idea how to figure what I'm using) for 24 hours at my electric bill 5.09 cents a k/Wh which for 30 days is $6.69
or
should be estimating my full pc's psu which is 850 watts for 24 hours at my electric bill 5.09 cents a k/Wh which for 30 days is $31.60
Also if I reduce the power limit from 100% to 70% is that reducing the power wattage too so instead of 180 watts it would be 126 watts?
Thanks!
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