Comparison of electricity consumption on a home PC with and without a miner. By how much is consumption increasing?

Question

data mining

Tell me, what to mine on home computers has not been profitable for a long time, this has already been discussed many times. But what happens if you start mining at 2/3 of the processor load while you work with the text yourself. The computer is already working, spinning fans and feeding itself. By how many orders of magnitude will electricity consumption increase if we assume that without a miner it loads the system by 25%, and with a miner the load is 90%?

Answer 1

Well, it’s profitable or not depends on how you count, if you invest money in buying video cards for it and wait for their payback, then yes, this most likely won’t happen anymore, and if you already have a more or less powerful home computer, some of the resources of which are idle, then you can mine , I now have a gtx 1060 vidyukha on nicehash and an r5 1600 processor mine brings 2 dollars a day, the most interesting thing is that the ratio of profitability between them is increasingly declining in favor of the processor, which now brings 85 cents, I didn’t consider the costs of the computer separately, but I completely pay for this There are enough communal apartments around the world and there is still a little left.

Answer 2

buy a watt meter and measure
now the energy-saving functions in processors are well developed and in the minimum operation mode the processor frequency decreases
, let's say i5 3570 at minimum load draws 60 watts - at a maximum of about 120, this is without a video card, it itself can take from 200 watts, depends on loads