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Some US states tightening power consumption requirements for high-end gaming PCs
Some states in the US are tightening the requirements for power consumption for gaming PCs. The Register writes in a report. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont and Washington appear to be the states.
Dell is already adapting towards the new legislation. On Dell's US website, AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs, Intel Rocket Lake processors, Nvidia's RTX 3000 graphics cards and AMD's RX 6000 graphics cards can be found on a variety of systems. In fact, there are SKUs with a GTX 1650 that would not be affected.
For all types of systems, including laptops, mini PCs and even hand-held systems, manufactured between January 1, 2019 and July 1, 2021, the California Energy Commission has amended its rules. Memory bandwidth, fast connections, and separate video cards are all factors to be considered. Measuring factors include the idle consumption under different conditions and the maximum consumption as well. Laptops with "cyclic behavior" and systems with high-speed networking will also be regulated as of December of this year. NRD has apparently already written about PC consumption in 2016. To date, it has saved more than 2.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity through the new requirements. The annual consumption of all houses in San Francisco is equal to this amount. This would prevent 730,000 tons of CO2 emissions.
Sources: California Energy Commission, Dell, The Register
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#5933028 Posted on: 07/28/2021 12:06 PM
This will just force the gpu makers to make more power efficient video cards which is good..... instead of now which is basically how hot can we run it before it melts.
This will just force the gpu makers to make more power efficient video cards which is good..... instead of now which is basically how hot can we run it before it melts.
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#5933030 Posted on: 07/28/2021 12:11 PM
Performance always comes first.
This will just force the gpu makers to make more power efficient video cards which is good..... instead of now which is basically how hot can we run it before it melts.
Performance always comes first.
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#5933036 Posted on: 07/28/2021 12:26 PM
This is all obviously a preemptive strike to reduce overall electricity usage in these states before the huge increase in usage coming as more people replace their "gas" cars with full electric. They have stated many times that there is not enough electricity actually generated in these states to power everyone using EVs in future (and only solution is more power stations or reduce other things using electricity).
This is all obviously a preemptive strike to reduce overall electricity usage in these states before the huge increase in usage coming as more people replace their "gas" cars with full electric. They have stated many times that there is not enough electricity actually generated in these states to power everyone using EVs in future (and only solution is more power stations or reduce other things using electricity).
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#5933043 Posted on: 07/28/2021 12:50 PM
Oh boy. As if we needed one more thing for people to blow way out of proportion.
Oh boy. As if we needed one more thing for people to blow way out of proportion.
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I don't mind if they limit household items at a max watts. Been like that in my country for vac cleaners and some other things already for years. They can start by forcing stores to shut down their lights and other shit during night. Since multi gpu isn't that common for most gamers nowadays i doubt the regulations will bother us much.