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Joulemeter Computes PC Power Consumption

Wonder how much power/electricity does your laptop or computer consume per hour? Microsoft has this nifty application that does just that — it’s called the Joulemeter.

Still in alpha version, Joulemeter breaks down power consumption of your PC down to several parts including the CPU, Disk and Monitor.

This one is a screenshot of a Joulemeter reading of my notebook — around 20 watts. I tested this on my desktop PC and it gave me an estimate of 120 watts.

I have stopped using my desktop PC starting this month and completely relied on my laptop so I got curious how much power I am able to save with this move (and hopefully also able to compute how much I save on electricity bills).

Joulemeter also shows estimated consumption of the PC in kWh and CO2 (cubic feet) produced. Check it here and let me know what your reading is.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

19 Responses

  1. Avatar for Clark Ashley Clark Ashley says:

    Things are all very open and extremely clear explanation of issues. was truly information. Your internet site is very beneficial. Thank you for sharing.

  2. Avatar for ruben galura ruben galura says:

    if u hav digital meralco electrical meter its easy. just turn-off all electrical items in ur house and see if ur meter read zero, if not just add whatever this actual value to the activated or turn-on computer. do this one unit (appliance) at a time. the readout will be in kwh(1000 watts).. a 120 watts will appear .1200kwh–a 500watts will appear .500kwh..
    sana makatulong.
    ruben

  3. Avatar for darwin darwin says:

    i am planning to put up a small business of computer shop. My estimated number of pc will be 16 units. can you please give me an idea as to how much consumption this will give?

  4. Avatar for IC DeaDPiPoL IC DeaDPiPoL says:

    Currently relying on this:

    http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

  5. Avatar for Nemo Trinidad Nemo Trinidad says:

    I seriously doubt its accuracy when it’s uncalibrated. And it doesn’t take into consideration the power draw of the GPU/video card. It is afterall the most power-hungry component in a desktop.

  6. Avatar for IC DeaDPiPoL IC DeaDPiPoL says:

    Anyone know of a shop that sells Kill-a-Watt Watt meters?

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/08/why-estimate-when-you-can-measure.html

  7. Avatar for Jon Jon says:

    Nice share there. I haven’t been using my desktop computer for quite some time now, but I am curious how much does my laptop consume. I’d try this at home and compare with the other laptops at home.

  8. Avatar for IC DeaDPiPoL IC DeaDPiPoL says:

    crap! requires .NET 3.5 ;_;

  9. Avatar for manaka_junpei manaka_junpei says:

    salamat sa Joulemeter nalaman ang katotohanan kung nakatipid ako sa kuryente depende sa specs nang bawat PC natin

  10. Avatar for Mystic Knight Mystic Knight says:

    here’s the correct site..
    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/fe9e10c5-5c5b-450c-a674-daf55565f794/

  11. Avatar for Vidar Vidar says:

    I tried to install it but did not install. When I tried to reinstall it, it says service was already installed. Weird.

  12. Avatar for Vidar Vidar says:

    Nevermind. Googled it.

  13. Avatar for Vidar Vidar says:

    Hmm. I can’t find the download link. It says “A freely downloadable version of the Joulemeter software that measures laptop and desktop energy usage will be be available in a few weeks. Watch this space!”

  14. Avatar for JP JP says:

    But I think some pirated Windows users will have doubts downloading this.

  15. Avatar for JP JP says:

    Great finds, Abe!

  16. Avatar for rsa1 rsa1 says:

    Also averaging 120 W

  17. Avatar for abeolandres abeolandres says:

    Compute your laptop/PC power consumption with Joulemeter — http://www.yugatech.com/blog/freewares/j…

    • Avatar for thinkistank thinkistank says:

      RT @abeolandres: Compute your laptop/PC power consumption with Joulemeter — http://www.yugatech.com/blog/freewares/j…

    • Avatar for spawnskies spawnskies says:

      @abeolandres good evening sir! been wanting to follow you since i’ve found out your blog. i also want to earn thru my internet like u do..:)

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