I have a Watt-Meter right on my PC plug next to my monitor so I can always see how much I consume. It's crazy how much the monitors alone take up, it's kind 40 KW/h each. I'm considering removing one of them.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Do you mean kW or kWh?

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Neither hopefully. The former at least is a unit of power, but 40 kW is enough to heat up a whole apartment building.

In reality a large and older monitor might use a couple hundred watts. A small modern 24" will probably use closer to 50 W (guesstimating), which is still a decent chunk of the power draw of a budget build.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

True, they probably ment to say 40W, or as the EU energy label likes to say: 40kWh/1000h

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

40kWh/1000h

What? That’s a really stupid way to put it. You can’t just “per x hour” a per hour based unit.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

40 kilowatt-hours used per one thousand hours of runtime is a perfectly valid if cumbersome unit

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