Average power consumption of a gaming PC?

Alex15

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Hi everybody!

I'm a student and I must to study the average power consumption of a gaming pc.

I know that this question is difficult to answer because it depends of full hypothesis but I would like to make a estimation about right. Like I don't have a lot of knowledge in this skills area, I prefer to ask for help to the experts here present.

I just want an average that is to say a computer of a gamer which runs the last video games with an average screen resolution and without lags. The informations I need is the average power supply of a pc gamer (which answers to the description above) and and the average power consumption (in Watts) when the game runs.

Thank you ahead of time.
 
It is hard to substantiate any of this without real life data. You could argue hardcore gamers have power rigs with 750 watts of PSU's, using up to 600 watts of it during gaming. But that would be a small group. I would say most gamers have PSU's of 500 watts and would be using up to 400 watts of it under full load.
This is both under full load, and also not really representative. There are many popular games that do not require much power to run them, so during those games a computer would be using far less watts than under full load (Minecraft, LoL, CS:GO).
 

Alex15

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Jul 5, 2016
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Thanks all.

We can look at Steam Hardware and Software survey (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/) to see the most popular PC components used by gamers and try to get an estimation - based on a GTX 970 GPU and a dual core 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz CPU, I would say a TDP of around 300W.