Having to pull out

[Lu523]

Do what you have to do. Just glad you where able to help out. As others have said you are still welcome here.

[shoota]

Multiple people living in one house, and yes, cumulative. Last three-month period was about $2.5k, or about $900/month.

WOW! that is a ton! I'm having to scale back because my elec bill is hitting the $200's.. $900/month, that's almost my rent!

[Jowy Atreides]

This has been coming for a while, ever since our State government stopped subsidising power bills (which in a way is a good thing, because folks here need to start realising what their energy usage is actually costing the planet), and it's extremely disappointing, but I simply can't afford to keep crunching. Last couple of power bills have been through the roof, and while I've been trying to cut corners in other areas to keep up at least a 12hrs/day effort I just can't do all that much in the face of thousands of dollars.

It's been fun - go cure cancer for me!

This thread title....

Every cloud etc, how can you improve your homes efficiency?

[alucasa]

I found out the hard way about the powerbill also.

And as long as you don't OC crap out of your rigs, generally they are surprisingly efficient.
And for general rules,

1. if you wanna go for i7, go for socket 1156 and save 30w from CPU.
2. Go for smaller mobo to use less power. Mini-ITX is an ideal choice.
3. Use as little fans as possible.
4. Setup machines as headless.
5. If you gotta OC, do a mild OC. Don't OC crap out of your rigs because they will start to use a lot more powers after about 3.6ghz.

[Rise]

That's still a lot. I should be thankful I'm in the midwest USA I guess where electric is relatively cheap.

yeah it's not too bad here at all... my central air has been running non-stop for the past month and the electric bill was only a couple hundy