Impact on electric bill?

[jesterb84]

Recently, I've been noticing that my aging E2160 is requiring more vcore to keep it stable at 3GHz (just recently bumped it again to 1.45V last week). As I have noticed my electricity bill gradually climbing the last couple of months, this brought up the question as to whether my overclocked system is using significantly more power than a non-overclocked one.

Specifically, if I replace the 65nm E2160 @3GHz (overclocked) with something like a 45nm E6500 @ 2.93GHz (stock), would this typically lower my electricity bill by a noticeable amount, or not make much of a difference? I'm thinking going from 65nm to 45nm and from overclocked to stock might save some power for sure, but not certain by how much.

 

[cbn]

what do you mean by noticeable?

 

[Daemas]

$1 per watt per year. Raising the vcore probably raised your bill like 115 cents, if that.

 

[jesterb84]

$1 per watt per year. Raising the vcore probably raised your bill like 115 cents, if that.

LOL thanks

 

[Hacp]

Your electricity bill is just fine. You have been brainwashed by the environmental wackos.

 

[sxr7171]

You know what really pisses me off? I look in my Ethernet advanced settings and there is something called "green ethernet" and it is enabled by default. Are they f*****g serious? I have enough trouble with the POS crap quality Realtek 8111D and I needed some b******t "green ethernet" thing to screw up my performance more? How much power can a damn NIC use anyway?


Next thing these jackasses will ask us to do is breathe slower so we don't warm the globe so much. I'll breathe when and where I wish and as deeply as I wish thank you very much. Also they ain't going stop any flatulence from me. Again, when and where and as much as I wish.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Recently, I've been noticing that my aging E2160 is requiring more vcore to keep it stable at 3GHz (just recently bumped it again to 1.45V last week).

Run Memtest HCI. As much ram as you can use. Run it overnight beyond 2000%

You might find your ram is failing rather than pushing more vcore to keep the CPU stable.

 

[Plimogz]

Also they ain't going stop any flatulence from me. Again, when and where and as much as I wish.

I don't think the first thought in people's (even environmentalists') minds will be about protecting the environment when you go around farting "when and where and as much as you wish". I think it might just be something like: Who the f*c* farted in the elevator again? Now I've got put up with their rancid stink for 7 more floors

 

[jesterb84]

Run Memtest HCI. As much ram as you can use. Run it overnight beyond 2000%

You might find your ram is failing rather than pushing more vcore to keep the CPU stable.

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely give that a try and see how it goes. At this point, it's almost not worth replacing a C2D processor and 3.0GHz on an E2160 is pretty fast for me already.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Worst case .... Maybe $2.50/month (if your CPU is cranking 6-7 hrs a day).

The increase in power draw is exponential. Increasing the core voltage from 1.23v to 1.35v might be a 15% increase in wattage. At 1.45v it might be 35-40% higher than 1.23v.

At least, that's what Mr. KilloWatt seems to tell me.





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[jesterb84]

Thanks guys, those were exactly the answers I was looking for. I'll need to turn my attention to testing RAM now. Need to get to the bottom of why extracting the same .rar file sometimes yields errors and sometimes not.