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Does anyone know of a utility that will tell me how much power all of the components in my case are drawing?

I've got a 300W power supply in my machine, but only 2 IDE devices so I'm not really worried about blowing up my motherboard or PSU, but I'm just curious. I'd also like to know if there's some software available that will track my power use over time to show how much power I'm using at peak operating times (like when I'm playing NWN over the internet) and at the low times (ie-during system hibernation).

I doubt there's anything out there that does that. AFAIK PSU's only report the core, 5V and 12V outputs only.

However, if someone can prove me wrong, I'm also curious to know how much my system is chewing through.

On campus we use a program called Sandra and it checks everything from actual CPU speed and Driver speed to possibly power use. Will check when I get the chance to mess around with it again, unfortunately that won't be until Thursday. Hopefully I can get a URL of it or of a similar program.

You will find Sandra at http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/index.htm The freeware version is their "standard" download It is a great utilities program, but having gone through the "standard" version, I couldn't see anything relating to power use. Give it a go anyway - I only took a rushed look, and the program is pretty good

I have been thinking about this today and part of the problem is that I have several components in my case that do not run through the motherboard (mostly cooling fans, but I've got four of them) that software would not detect and monitor. I checked out the SANDRA website and it looked like they only had power management utilites, not a power consumption monitor.

I guess I'll have to hook a power meter up to the back of my machine and see how many kilowatt-hours it sucks down . . .

Thanks for you help guys.