vivster said:
Ganoncrotch said:
I just always think of PC's as being flexible to fill all roles but I guess the idea for power drain isn't a bad one really but most components today with newer fabrications will use a small amount of wattage while a PC isn't under load, I mean if you go for something cheap from a few years ago in comparison to my Ryzen 1700 right now just with some browser action there is no way an older chip would be hitting 13watts at any point unless it was off.
in terms of what it's used for I either sit here and game directly at it, or else make use of some 15m HDMI cables which run it off into other rooms for a TV and projector as well, just aye... one machine with setup to be everywhere can work.
The only thing I would think would be a good idea for a separate work machine... would be to avoid the risk of a virus or such from downloaded apps infecting and ransomwaring your work files, that would definitely be a good reason to have a separate machine for them.
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Well, it is a very specific setup and use case. I will get all of the pros with basically no drawback whatsoever. So there really is no reason not to do it. It makes everything cleaner and more streamlined.
I'm going to assume that you're not playing Rocket League at 144fps with G-sync and an Nvidia driver that does what the fuck it wants all day while trying to watch Twitch on a 60Hz monitor.
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Only have Rocket League on PS4/Switch not the PC
Can throw out 100 or so frames of Overwatch using 35w of power though, my GPU has become the bottleneck since getting a Ryzen, it's a 760 but waiting on my 1060 to arrive to make a bit more use out of it.
Ryzen really gives insane amounts of CPU power per Watt
