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| haxxiy said: I'm legit buying a new case because I don't think mine will be able to cope with the heat output from the new GPUs. I know that'll probably be an unpopular opinion but PC components should be subject to the same power saving laws that lamps, air conditioners etc. have faced in the last few decades. People were consuming more power than whole countries to mine bitcoins a while back for God's sake. The idea that a single chip would need 250 - 400 watts to function no longer fits today's zeitgeist. |
80 plus PSUs ring a bell?
The EU actually tried to do something like that by taxing extension cards by memory bandwidth. Anything above 256 bit would be taxed extra. That was mid-2000s, so before HBM or any similar technology. The growth in TDP numbers stopped however, and thus the law never came to be.
The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing
The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/
Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/
