Guides
- How to measure your PC’s real power use
Use a plug-in energy meter to measure what your PC draws while gaming, idle and asleep, and why software readings differ.
- Dynamic electricity tariffs: when to game for less
How hourly electricity tariffs work, how much timing your gaming can save, and how to read the live market price map.
- Power supply sizing, transient spikes and ATX 3.1 explained
Why modern graphics cards trip power supplies, what ATX 3.x changed, and how to size a power supply without overspending.
- Sleep, hibernate or shut down: what saves the most
Power draw of idle, sleep, hibernate and off for a desktop PC, and the settings that make sleep work reliably.