How much does a gaming PC cost per month in Idaho?

About $6.68 a month, assuming 400 W, 4 hours a day, 365 days a year at 13.73¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does a gaming PC use?

Roughly 584 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.40 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Idaho has the 6th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $107 a year.

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Cost to run a gaming PC in Idaho (July 2026 rates)

At 13.73¢ per kilowatt-hour — Idaho's average residential price in July 2026 — running a gaming PC costs $80.18 a year. That is 25% less than the national average of $107. Idaho's residential rate is up 11.8% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $71.72 to $80.18 a year.

Per hour: 5.5¢
Per day of use: 22.0¢
Per month: $6.68
Per year: $80.18

Assumption: 400 W, 4 hours a day, 365 days a year — 584 kWh a year. Under load with a mid-to-high-end GPU. Idling at the desktop is closer to 80 W, and the monitor is on top of this. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Idaho compares

Idaho pays 13.73¢/kWh, the 6th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $26.75 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same gaming PC costs $74.28 a year in Louisiana and $280 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $206 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
North Dakota	13.41¢	$6.53	$78.31
Tennessee	13.71¢	$6.67	$80.07
Idaho	13.73¢	$6.68	$80.18
Nebraska	13.78¢	$6.71	$80.48
Kentucky	13.81¢	$6.72	$80.65

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a gaming PC.

What else costs about the same in Idaho

Aquarium$81.19 a year in ID Well pump$75.17 a year in ID Dehumidifier$74.14 a year in ID

Cutting the number down

Capping frame rate to the monitor's refresh rate cuts GPU draw substantially with no visible difference.
Sleep rather than idle: a machine left at the desktop overnight can use more in a year than the gaming itself.
Undervolting a modern GPU typically trims power meaningfully at near-identical performance.

Questions

How much does a gaming PC cost per month in Idaho?: About $6.68 a month, assuming 400 W, 4 hours a day, 365 days a year at 13.73¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does a gaming PC use?: Roughly 584 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.40 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Idaho has the 6th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $107 a year.