260GTX 216 and electricity bill...

[xXxRithxXx]

Hey,

I am planning on purchasing a second EVGA 260GTX 216 Core 55NM video card and am wondering what kind of damage it would deal to my electricity bill. Some other info is as follows:

Paying 9.69 cents per kWh

Comp specs:

q6600 @ 3GHz
EVGA 260GTX (Soon to be SLI)
EVGA 750i FTW
1 HDD
4Gb RAM
1 CD/DVD Burner
Corsair 750TX PSU

Thank you

[gingerbee]

i have 7 computers on 24 hours a day at the end of the month my bill never tops 120 at 6.5 cent a KWH (should you worry about it )

[xXxRithxXx]

Well thats a relief...I was getting worried for a bit. I just moved and I didn't wanna bite off more than I could chew.

[aviduser]

Originally Posted by gingerbee

i have 7 computers on 24 hours a day at the end of the month my bill never tops 120 at 6.5 cent a KWH (should you worry about it )

You wouldn't even need to pay for heating if you just up the core voltage on them all

[SKYMTL]

Let me tell you about my electricity bill. Granted, I live in a 1300 square foot upper duplex and heat with electric baseboards but....$622 for the month of January.

However, the impact on your electricity bill should be minimal.

[Squeetard]

500 watts = .5 kwh per hour = 4.845 cents per hour

744 hours in a month * 4.845 = $36.05

[gingerbee]

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

Let me tell you about my electricity bill. Granted, I live in a 1300 square foot upper duplex and heat with electric baseboards but....$622 for the month of January.

However, the impact on your electricity bill should be minimal.

omg omg omg you need to fix that with some other type of heating. thanks for the math lesson squeetard i hate work that out. vcore heat thats one way to go ( my bedroom is very warm ) funny thing is i am adding another one to that room (lilltle gamers for the bedroom see how fast can kill 5200@1.45 migration test)

[Oversized Rooster]

I don't know what my bill is - it gets automatically withdrawn. However I have 8 machines in the household and I have never felt a sudden impact in lack of funds by upgrading CPUs or video cards.

Besides, I will cut down on many other things before consider the efficiency of my PCs. The higher end machines serve as heaters, too. No joke.

[Jake_HT]

Originally Posted by Oversized Rooster

The higher end machines serve as heaters, too. No joke.

I haven't closed the window in my room for about 2 months.

[Oversized Rooster]

Originally Posted by Jake_HT

I haven't closed the window in my room for about 2 months.

With constant CPU load from folding why would you?

I have a total of 22 CPU cores doing folding for the York University team. Last year I've been upgrading almost all of the household machines to quad core CPUs. Even the two machines at my cottage are both quads!