Power consumption monitoring socket?

MMiskella

Hey,

I'm trying to find a monitoring socket that will calculate and display, in watts, the maximum power consumed from a standard 3 pin socket.

I found one in the Bord Gáis shop which seems to fit the bill but they are out of stock and the maker of the device seems to be out of stock as well.

Any ideas on shops or websites which might have something like this?
I would like to see my system draw before I attempt to overclock

Solitaire

That looks pretty cheap IMHO.

Such devices are oddly hard to find in Europe; commoner in the US for some reason. Please bear in mind that such a device can only give you the actual power consumption, not the amount of power used by the components, as you have to figure in the power dissipated by PSU inefficiencies. Its the reason I'm still clinging to my good old Odin GT

MMiskella

Yea I mainly want to know the suitability of my PSU for the system I have and if there is much overclocking headroom. I want to do it based on actual power draw from the socket then the 50% and 100% efficiencies are stated by Corsair so the actual power delivered can be extrapolated within reasonable accuracy, can put that against calculated power consumption based on voltages/amps where possible and get a decent idea of whats going on

Cheaper and more all encompassing then one that will acquire figures from pins/molex connections I would imagine.

Had a look on Ebay today and found a good few different makes for them based in the UK so I ordered one, 14.49euro delivered and it looks a bit more advanced so seems reasonable

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

Have you tried radionics.ie?

MMiskella

Komplett-Tech: Ryan wrote: »

Have you tried radionics.ie?

Excellent suggestion. Can't believe I didn't think of them myself but I just gave it a look around and they only seem to offer component style items which needs to be wired into the supply and fitted to a unit.

That would make for a ruddy good case mod

BabyEater

I got one in Maplins Dundalk their website have a few http://www.maplin.co.uk/power/mains-electrical/power-and-energy-monitors

MMiskella

Took delivery of mine and did some quick tests with just the plug for the system drawing current through the monitoring socket, these are my components and results, which i'm very pleased with.

Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.6Ghz
Asus Crosshair IV Formula
4GB DDR3 Patriot Viper PC3-12800C7
2x WD Raptor - RAID 0
6970 Crossfire
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Samsung 22x DVD RW
Obsidian 700D (3 x 120mm Corsair fans)
Win 7
Corsair Gold AX850

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Idle - 112.5 watts max (PF - 84)
3dmark11 - 477.4 watts max (PF - 96)
60 seconds of Kombuster - 524.8 watts max (PF - 96)
About 15 minutes of Mafia 2 - 388.6 watts max

I'm not totally sure what the power factor (PF) readings relate to exactly with respect to the system but I do understand what it is. Bit more research and I should be able to tell if they are significant to what I want to know, someone with more knowledge might find them informative so I posted them anyway.