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Originally Posted by korps559  My pc at home usually is on for about a day before someone eventually in my family turns off the pc or restarts, this usually being my pops because he hates wasting electricity and he really gets pissed because he thinks the computer is the reason for the high energy bill. Its frustrating explaining this to a hard headed old man from the old country lol. |
Well if you have a CRT on stand by and your computer idling you are using probably the equivalent of 2 75W light bulbs...When the computer is cranking you are looking at close to 250W just for it...So yeah it does add up...
So leaving a high end computer on 24/7 will cost you like $350 a year (a pretty good assumption)
Using a computer for a couple hours (2-3) a day will cost you like $6 bucks a year...