If your computer is "thinking" (proccessing... whatever) more, will it take up more electricity???

Answer 1

Processors have gotten smarter. Even though they are never really idle (the operating system is constantly processing to see if there is anything to do), some instructions take tiny amounts more power than others.

That's insignificant compared to the power drain of spinning the hard drive, moving the heads, the CD-ROM or the monitor. Often times, running heavy load will increase hard drive activity, drawing more power, but that isn't necessarily the case.

Video Games will often utilize chips on the graphics card and in the sound card that aren't otherwise drawing power, so that can be added drain. Of course, the same is true of a network card, but those usually use only a small amount of power. Spinning up the CD-ROM and running the laser for it in a video game is mostly what sucks up battery life.

Answer 2

no man .. when a computer is switched on .. it takes a fixed rate of electric energy which it uses at anytime .. it even uses it to only be on .. and also to be preccessing thousands of progs at one time ..

Answer 3

nope

the processing takes up memory (RAM, etc), it does not take up more enegry. Your power supply gives it what it needs, and your power supply gets what it needs from the outlet.

Answer 4

yes it will
playing games " real big games with fancy graphics, not kid games" will consume more electricity than surfing the internet