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Originally Posted by Taf
The heating in her room rarely switches on during the colder months. But what that saves in gas is turned into a higher electricity bill. The lad's much smaller B̷o̷x̷ ̷R̷o̷o̷m̷ third bedroom is like an oven all year round.
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I have a relatively high end PC and when it is running under high load gaming it still only uses 450 watts from the plug. Factor in another 50 or 60 watts for the screen you are still only slightly over 500 watts which at current rates is what 12p per hour ( Octopus rate ) Normal computing it is only pulling around 60 watts from the plug plus the screens
I would bet the OPs system though will throttle quite considerably under full CPU only load. I think there is something wrong with the cooling. Either not enough air drawn into the case or poor mount or poor thermal paste spread or I would not be surprised if it is not an offset mount and really should be for that CPU