Quote from: Hanna on January 05, 2014, 11:27:02 PM

Quote from: WakaWakaWaka on January 05, 2014, 11:20:41 PM

Yes, your electricity usage will rise a LOT when you start mining.

Oh allright! I see.

I happen to have two graphics card in this machine, becuase I have two different monitors and I couldn't get the monitor setup I wanted with just one card --- it seemed at the time.

Ok so, mining really increases resources then... Well mining at work should be good then, but it could get awkward if they decide to run a network wide scan to see what software is running and/or submitting network traffic....

Quote from: kosuke85 on January 05, 2014, 11:14:38 PM

What are you going to mine with? The cpu/gpu or a standalone miner connected to the pc? Either way your electricity use will increase.

Desktop PC which happens to have two graphics cards (nvidia decent spec). What do you think?

I can't measure the energy consumption from the actual PC, can I?

You can measure the energy consumed by the PC using a kill-a-watt meter.

http://www.amazon.com/Arbor-Scientific-P4400-Kill-Meter/dp/B001JHGY2Q

If you want to see what you are consuming while you mine, connect the tower to the kill-a-watt meter. Find your average kW/h, next multiple that by your utility cost. Mine is 10 cents per kW/h, that should give you a pretty good idea what it will cost to mine. FYI nVidia GPUs aren't as efficient as AMD.

I have one rig that consumes 1050 watts an hour, so that's 10.5 cents an hour or $2.52 a day.