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Title: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: Hanna on January 05, 2014, 11:12:11 PM I run my stationary PC 24/7 because I seed torrents....
Will it consume MORE energy because if I mine, than if it's just standing and seeding torrents? Any idea what the difference might be? Title: Re: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: kosuke85 on January 05, 2014, 11:14:38 PM What are you going to mine with? The cpu/gpu or a standalone miner connected to the pc? Either way your electricity use will increase.
Title: Re: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: WakaWakaWaka on January 05, 2014, 11:20:41 PM Yes, your electricity usage will rise a LOT when you start mining.
Title: Re: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: Hanna on January 05, 2014, 11:27:02 PM Yes, your electricity usage will rise a LOT when you start mining. Oh allright! I see. I happen to have two graphics card in this machine, becuase I have two different monitors and I couldn't get the monitor setup I wanted with just one card --- it seemed at the time. Ok so, mining really increases resources then... Well mining at work should be good then, but it could get awkward if they decide to run a network wide scan to see what software is running and/or submitting network traffic.... What are you going to mine with? The cpu/gpu or a standalone miner connected to the pc? Either way your electricity use will increase. Desktop PC which happens to have two graphics cards (nvidia decent spec). What do you think? I can't measure the energy consumption from the actual PC, can I? Title: Re: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: tehbrosta on January 06, 2014, 12:15:04 AM Yes, your electricity usage will rise a LOT when you start mining. Oh allright! I see. I happen to have two graphics card in this machine, becuase I have two different monitors and I couldn't get the monitor setup I wanted with just one card --- it seemed at the time. Ok so, mining really increases resources then... Well mining at work should be good then, but it could get awkward if they decide to run a network wide scan to see what software is running and/or submitting network traffic.... What are you going to mine with? The cpu/gpu or a standalone miner connected to the pc? Either way your electricity use will increase. Desktop PC which happens to have two graphics cards (nvidia decent spec). What do you think? I can't measure the energy consumption from the actual PC, can I? You can measure the energy consumed by the PC using a kill-a-watt meter. http://www.amazon.com/Arbor-Scientific-P4400-Kill-Meter/dp/B001JHGY2Q If you want to see what you are consuming while you mine, connect the tower to the kill-a-watt meter. Find your average kW/h, next multiple that by your utility cost. Mine is 10 cents per kW/h, that should give you a pretty good idea what it will cost to mine. FYI nVidia GPUs aren't as efficient as AMD. I have one rig that consumes 1050 watts an hour, so that's 10.5 cents an hour or $2.52 a day. Title: Re: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: BurtW on January 06, 2014, 12:24:29 AM I have one rig that consumes 1050 watts an hour, so that's 10.5 cents an hour or $2.52 a day. Like finger nails on a black board to an EE. Ouch. Watts per hour has no meaning. Watt = unit of power Watt-hour or kWh = unit of energy So "my rig burns 1050 Watts" in one hour it uses 1050 Watt-hours of energy = 1.05 kWh of energy So in 24 hours it uses 24 * 1.05 = 25.2 kWh of energy. At $0.10 per kWh = $2.52 per day. Title: Re: Mining, electricity costs if the computer is on ANYWAY? Post by: Pita on January 06, 2014, 02:30:10 AM Desktop PC which happens to have two graphics cards (nvidia decent spec). What do you think? I think you may burn more electricity than you may make running nvidia cards for mining :) |