Software and Hardware: Use software tools like Open Hardware Monitor or HWInfo to get a breakdown of your PC’s component-wise power usage.

Explore Thermaltake's Smart Power Management Platform in this insightful video. Discover how this advanced tool helps you ...

Use Radiograph app to monitor PC temperature, power consumption, and performance. Free app to copy hardware information and monitor PC performance.

Modern computers have components that require lots of power and given that this all costs money, here's our guide to measuring how much energy your PC uses.

2. Buy a watt meter Obviously, buying a new power supply just to monitor your PC’s electricity consumption is both extravagant and e-wasteful. A more practical alternative is to buy a watt meter.

SolarWinds partners with Cisco EnergyWise to track energy usage across IP devices, joining a slew of vendors tracking PC power, data center and network device energy consumption.

In any electronic device, the bulk of the power consumption comes from the display. Though displays vary, turning off your monitor can save roughly 50W of overall computer power consumption.

Other companies are tackling PC power consumption from different directions. New Hampshire's Degree Controls has created a network of sensors that can pinpoint hot spots in a server room and ...

Using the greener-than-ever CES as a backdrop, HP this week announced plans to reduce the energy consumption of its volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent by 2010 -- relative to its ...

Other companies are tackling PC power consumption from different directions. New Hampshire's Degree Controls has created a network of sensors that can pinpoint hot spots in a server room and ...