"Herminio Gonzalez" wrote in message
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Hello,

I run a number of computers at home, and was wondering how much
electricity each one consumes. Is there some kind of device that can be
attached between the PC and the wall outlet to measure power
consumption?

Kind regards,
Herminio Gonzalez


Cheap power consumption meters are occasionally available for around £5 from
supermarkets such as Lidl or Aldi and also on ebay.
As a guide to consumption, a typical PC with an Athlon 2100 cpu, single HD,
average graphics card takes about 75W when idle, rising to about 140W with
full CPU load.
You need to add-on the consumption of your monitor,this may be available
from the manual or label on the monitor itself.
Older PCs with 300-400Mhz (AMD K6) cpu can use on average about 50W.
As the CPU power consumption is an important factor - it may be interesting
to read this CPU power consumption comparison -
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article31-page1.html

Dave