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The PS3, 360 use a freakin' huge amount of electricity
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Not sure how many of you care, but considering how much energy prices are going up, you should.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26421252&sid=6192184&om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;16
tl;dr: the PS3 uses more power than five refrigerators. The 360 isn't far behind. The Wii is a a power-sipper, but when WiiConnect24 is on it uses more power than the 360 and PS3 do when completely off.
Interesting to know.
The PlayStation 3: Blu-ray player, next-gen game machine, multimedia hub--and power guzzler. According to a report by the Australian Consumers' Association's Choice publication, leaving your PS3 on when you're not gaming can cost you A$250 ($239) a year in electricity bills.
That's the same as five refrigerators, and "serves as an important reminder to turn off video game systems after use." Before Microsoft fans get too smug, though, the Xbox 360 came in at a close second place.
The PS3, while on and running a game, consumes some 33.34kWh weekly--equivalent to around A$5 ($4.79). When on but idle, it uses almost as much, sapping 31.74kWh, or A$4.76 ($4.56). When the machine was off (with the back switch on), power usage plummeted to 0.30kWh, or A$0.04 ($0.04) a week.
In comparison, the Xbox 360 used up 26kWh per week in power when on and running a game--about A$3.90 ($3.73) in real money. When on but idle, the figure was slightly reduced to 23.47kWh or around A$3.53 ($3.37), and when off used up only 0.40kWh or A$0.06 ($0.06) a week.
Unsurprisingly, the Nintendo Wii used the least power--under 10 percent of that needed for the PS3. Playing a game, it uses 3.14kWh costing A$0.47 ($0.45) a week, and on but idle it drained 2.97kWh or A$0.45 ($0.43). When the console was switched off, but WiiConnect24 remained on, this dropped to 1.78kWh, costing A$0.27 ($0.26) a week. When WiiConnect24 was also turned off, this figure became 0.32kWh or A$0.05 ($0.05) a week.
The report also found that the Plasma TV set tested was also a "power hungry device" and required over four times as much power as a traditional CRT analogue TV set.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26421252&sid=6192184&om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;16
tl;dr: the PS3 uses more power than five refrigerators. The 360 isn't far behind. The Wii is a a power-sipper, but when WiiConnect24 is on it uses more power than the 360 and PS3 do when completely off.
Interesting to know.
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I don't usually set my Wii to have wiiconnect24 enabled.
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Yeah...my pc warms the house. I turn it off though when I don't need unlike a lot of people I know.
It only sounds like a lot. $5 is a week isn't that much.
You could totally eat off of the dollar menu with that.
Man, I don't even want to know how much energy my office sucks up. During the workday, I know it's at least 5-10 degrees hotter than the rest of the apartment.
Using their numbers, the PS3 averages 198W and the X360 averages 154W, both when up and running. The halogen light in my living room uses 300W at full-bright. My rear-projection CRT? Gotta be sucking down around 500 W. (Even my more modern/efficient 37" LCD eats 300W.)
Hell, this computer and LCD panel I'm using to type this is certainly good for 300W, too.
I mean, 150/200 W isn't utterly insigificant, but it's not anything to actually worry about, either. You just turn the 360 off when you're not using it -- which I'd do anyway, because I don't like the sound of having a jet turbine in my living room...
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One thing to keep in mind that while you are running the heater, having your console suck up energy doesn't really matter since it is producing heat with basically 100% efficiency.
However if you are running it while your AC is on it is costing you more than double since you pay for the electricity to generate heat, then have to pay for the AC to move that heat outside.
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Yeah I know right? It talks a half a second to turn a console off. It's like turning off the lights when your not in the room.
I never asked for this!
There is no excuse.
No good ones anyway.
It gets hot as hell in here with the TV on and one of the game systems on.
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Doesn't it take up more bandwidth or something? I decided to uninstall it from my PS3 when I found out.
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You might as well say hairdryers and toasters are the most energy demanding appliances in the house.
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When I read the topic, I thought it was talking about how much power they sucked in standby mode, but reading the article made me dumb so i dont remember what i was thinkin?
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It measured power usage while reading a disk, while idling, while in standby and, in the case of the Wii, while using WiiConnect24.
Pretty useful, actually.
Its pretty nifty as I've got the remote mounted on a small bracket just as I walk into the living room, so I always remember to click everything off before I leave.
My housemate takes care of the power bills but on the bills are a little graph showing consumption levels for the past few months, and with another person living there (me), power consumption has actually gone down
I've got one for my room too.
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Does it affect performance at all?
Yeah, this is a great article.
I didn't leave my console on before, but I guess I'll continue turning it off when I'm finished.
It runs as its own app, meaning you can't run it while doing anything else on the PS3. You can set it to auto-start after your system has been idle for a while, and you can set it to auto shut off the machine after a certain period of time as well.
More info here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3
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I've torn one of my switches apart to see what it does (they're pretty cheap) and its simply opening and closing a gate to affect the flow of electricity, as I expected. The switch itself is obviously powered from the outlet. There didn't seem to be anything it could bridge with to short out the power board.
But if you've got everything on the one strip it may not be idea for you, as some things like Foxtel don't like to be turned on and off all the time.
jeez, i would've sworn it was higher than that. this is pretty good news.