That was the actual wattage used on average from what my smart meter was telling me, the actual max/peak wattage was 700w for the psu, didn’t help having a reasonable graphics card, quad i5 with 16gb ram, 4x1tb drives and a additional pci sound blaster, it all adds up, then there’s the constant mirror backup for wd and wxsim, it was used as my personal pc too, now its upgraded to a 4gb graphics and a i7 and used for editing 4k,the weather is solely on the laptop, with that and changing the TV to a 55" led from a 37" lcd saving about 200w there as well, changing all my lights to led, I am now saving at least