We will not be able to know how much this electricity costs us, but it will be enough for us to do the calculations by looking at the price of electricity or the specific price of our bill that we pay month by month and that we can consult online.
Use an online calculator
We can get an idea of consumption through an online energy calculator, the fastest option and which allows us an estimate based on the components we have installed on our PC, although, of course, we must know them beforehand. if you know the technical specifications of all of themwe fill them in a calculator and we will have the electricity spent.
Use programs or applications
The second easiest option to find out how much energy a computer uses is to use a specific program, an application or software for Windows that we can download for free and that takes care of the measurement without the need for us to do anything manually. download the program and will measure the different specific components of the PC and how much each of them consumes.
One option is download AIDA64 for free. We downloaded it, installed it, ran it as administrator by clicking the right mouse button and going to the “Tools” option on the taskbar and to “System Stability Test” or system stability test. So we can make a test to our PC. Once inside this section, we check all the boxes in the upper left corner and click on the corresponding button to do the test.
When we have arrived here, we go to the tab “Energy” and we will see how the computer consumes energy. In addition, we can uncheck the different boxes if we want a more specific measurement of some components or others.