Power load on system...

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Question about the power utilization...

The system is W10 v.1809:

Desktop tower with 5 x 120mm Noctua fans
CPU: Intel i5 8400
Memory:16GBs (4x4)
Drives: 2 x Samsung 960 EVO m.2, Samsung SSD 850 EVO, DVD RW
Video: GeForce GTX 1050
Monitor: Samsung 40" LED TV (resolution: 3840 x 2160)

The system, monitor and an LED desk-lamp with USB charger are connected to CyberPower UPS. The average power usage is low:



The monthly statistics for power usage, including the cost and CO2, is also rather low:



The system pretty much only used for office purposes, unless the grandkids want to watch some online cartoons...

The previous system, with older CPU (Sandy Bridge), couple HDDs and different video card, etc., also used the same UPS. The power usage statistics for the older system were pretty much double, when compared to the current system.

Are the stats for the new system correct, or the CyberPower app isn't working well with Windows 10?

TIA...

cr00zng,

I was looking at the system specs. I see that you jumped from a third generation intel i5 CPU to an 8th Gen Intel i5. That alone gains you a lot of efficiencies. The new CPU probably doesn't consume nearly as much power doing the same tasks that a 3rd gen would unless you are doing something that calls upon it to be heavily utilized. The 8th gen also probably has more advanced throttling and power saving features so it's likely using less energy when idle.

Also, I noticed that your storage is now all solid state (congratulations!) but that you had 2 spinning disks in the previous system. That too can be a nice power savings, unless the spinning disks were spun down a large part of the time.

One more comment: If you want to get a better idea of whether the UPS is reporting power usage properly, trying running a stress test utility on your PC. Something like "prime95" should do the trick. That will very heavily utilize the system and you should see power usage increase rather dramatically.