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As it gets hotter I pay more attention to turning off my computer when I am not using it as it wastes electricity and puts out heat.
I have a typical desktop with the usual energy saving software. Anyone know how many watts of power it uses just left on? ... or a general range? It's about six months old with an I7 processor. I put in high capacity cooling fans which are kind of noisy but I doubt if they use much juice. |
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100-125, assuming you are using on-board video and two RAM DIMMs. It probably uses only 5 when turned off or in sleep mode.
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100-125, assuming you are using on-board video and two RAM DIMMs. It probably uses only 5 when turned off or in sleep mode. I have a high capacity video card. So I guess it is somewhat more. The fans run even when the computer is asleep. Five watts isn't much so I won't bother to turn it off more than I already do. Thanks for the info. 
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