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MoreSore
Ireland73 Posts
This might be a weird question but, does anyone know the difference between the power consumption of your graphics card while on Low Settings and Ultra Settings. I have recently double my electricity bill due to playing a ton and was wondering if it would make a significant difference for me to start playing on lower graphics settings. I have searched google/teamliquid forums for this and haven't found anything. Any knowledge would be appreciated  | ||
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Lysergic
United States355 Posts
Your computer's overall power consumption might be raising your bill. Graphics cards are like 100W or so right? What kind of Power Supply do you have? My electric bill doubled a month ago because I started using my air conditioning. Anyways, I recommend setting your Graphics to Low, then changing Textures to Ultra, Terrain to Medium, Effects to Medium, and Models to High. You'll have higher fps, lower power, and the screen will be very readable - having shaders on med+ is distracting IMO, and Ultra settings are just ridiculous to play on. | ||
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RaLakedaimon
United States1564 Posts
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surraymb
Austria114 Posts
If you want to save power you could set your settings as low as you can live with and then reduce the clock speed and if possible the power of your graphics card and cpu as low as you can while keeping a playable framerate. Depending on your graphics card and driver you should be able to do this in your driver configruation.. cpu settings are usually best changed in the BIOS. | ||
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Yurie
11960 Posts
On August 07 2011 20:06 surraymb wrote: Lowering the detail and stuff won't help usually as then the graphics card just spends it's power on rendering the lower detail stuff faster. If you want to save power you could set your settings as low as you can live with and then reduce the clock speed and if possible the power of your graphics card and cpu as low as you can while keeping a playable framerate. Depending on your graphics card and driver you should be able to do this in your driver configruation.. cpu settings are usually best changed in the BIOS. MSI Afterburner is also a good program for changing GPU settings. | ||
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Bigpet
Germany533 Posts
Also what are your CPU, GPU, PSU? | ||
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Zhiroo
Kosovo2724 Posts
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Raskit
579 Posts
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Bigpet
Germany533 Posts
On August 07 2011 20:24 Zhiroo wrote: CPU = Processor, GPU = Grachic Card, PSU = Power Supply Lol I meant what are his components but thanks for explaining it to everybody | ||
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anathematize
United States69 Posts
...because i think that is about the only thing that would DOUBLE your electric bill from one month to the next. no way the graphics settings from a single game is doing that. | ||
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DusTerr
2520 Posts
On August 07 2011 21:28 anathematize wrote: are you sure your roomate hasn't recently started growing some medicinal cannabis in his closet? ...because i think that is about the only thing that would DOUBLE your electric bill from one month to the next. no way the graphics settings from a single game is doing that. that definitely will... er, or could... so I've heard... | ||
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HaVoX
Canada61 Posts
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RoboBob
United States798 Posts
But if you want to see for yourself how much wattage each component consumes, check this out: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/fe9e10c5-5c5b-450c-a674-daf55565f794/default.aspx | ||
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Zhiroo
Kosovo2724 Posts
On August 07 2011 20:52 Bigpet wrote: Lol I meant what are his components but thanks for explaining it to everybody My bad I didn't see 'your' when I read that. :$ | ||
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MoreSore
Ireland73 Posts
On August 07 2011 21:46 HaVoX wrote: There is no way running a gaming computer will double your power bill. I have a top of the line desktop PC and it might cost me $30 to run for a month around 12+ hours a day. That is highly unlikely Anyways I have been gaming more lately, hiwch had an effect on the bill but I though that maybe lowering the graphics settings would make the card work less,therefore lowering power consumption.btw. my psu is 800W | ||
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tertle
Australia328 Posts
Let's assume a computer uses roughly 250W when browsing or 500W when gaming. (Single GPU, single monitor). At 15c/kilowatt hour, you're paying 3.5-7.5c/hour to use your computer. Even if you're paying 20c/killowatt hour that's still around 10c/hour max assuming pure gaming. You're rated PSU also has close nothing to do with the power draw, just the max power it can draw. In reality very few systems would ever reach 800W usage even with SLI, most standard systems would have a tough time breaking 400W. Technically a higher W cpu will use slightly less power as the optimal efficiency is generally around the 50% of max, but that's a couple of % and is only barely noticeable. Lowering your graphics card will reduce your power usage, but by so little that it'd be barely noticeable. | ||
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Saicam
262 Posts
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MoreSore
Ireland73 Posts
Thanks and gl | ||
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DarKcS
Australia1237 Posts
 http://www.techspot.com/review/305-starcraft2-performance/page4.html I was going to upgd my GPU first but when I saw that my $80 275 GTX neglibly slower than a $300-400 470/480 (only in SC2) but there is a 20~fps different between my Q6600 and an i7 level CPU. | ||
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Zax19
Czech Republic1136 Posts
Anyway, get RMCLock, some clocking tool for your graphics card and underclock and undervolt all of it. Most of the time hardware will run faster, eat up more energy than necessary and undervolting is great if you spend a lot of time playing a 3D game with very low requirements. | ||
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figq
12519 Posts
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