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The Power Consumption of Modern PCs

Posted by Zonk on from the keep-your-lights-off-to-compensate dept.

janp writes "The power consumption of modern PCs has skyrocketed the past few years. Hardware.Info has done some fairly extensive research on the power usage of various configurations. It turns out the a high-end gaming rig can easily use more than 400 W, and that putting a system in stand-by isn't as saving as you might think. The article has some interesting tips to save on power costs."

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  1. Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The nascar, pro wrestling and SUVs of nerdom. double plus good, it forces folks to "stay stuck on microsoft". You read that a lot here. There's also the obesity epidemic in the western world, that starts with the kids unfortunately, who have gone from tens of thousands of years being physically active to in one generation being pretty passive, at the same time that getting food became relatively easy and inexpensive.

    But of course, there's no correlation at all....just a coincidence. Same with violence and brain pattern conditioning, and forced drugging because of ADHD, just a coincidence.