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Are games messing with nature?
Pelagato
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Hey everyone... have you ever wonder if all this tecnological improvement in computer hardware for games are messing up the enviroment... I was reading this mourning some articles and reviews about the new video cards... and I notice that each design of new cards each year consume more Watts compare to the previous generation...
I remember some years ago around 2003 that a nice gaming computer will use around from 250 to 350 Watts, but recently i see some reviews and benchmarks and they say that the new cards like 8800. or 3870 use much more power than before... I see some cross fire configuration that use around 650watt...
Faster is better for gaming and hardware performance... but are they messing with nature?
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I have to say no.
an extra 300 watts is nothing on a powergrid....even when you add all the gaming PCS around the nation together.
Also, just plop a solar window on your roof (like I did) and you wont have to worry about touching the electrical grid (the power company actually pays me 75 bucks a month). Expensive? sure...like everything else in this world. But you'll have it paid of in 6 months and then youll make money from it.
But, a PC up a couple hundred watts isn't going to hurt anything. By the time, Vcard gets up to 10,000 watts Im sure technology will present itself to have a more effecient graphics card anyways
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
The day to day energy consumption of PC's is actually very limited. What does the trick is the production process. I read once that for every computer over 300 kilograms of raw materials have to be processed. And boy, are those a lot of processes...
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hm.... that point looks good for another poll
it's nothing compared to cars for instance some few billion PC's won't make the difference...
wazzaaa!
(i don't play tmn anymore...)
I chose the option "Hell Yeah!" as I think computers are quite energy draining and we are affecting our environment quite a lot through the need of a variety of different stuff that's necessary for the computer to work.
this part of our evolution is natural and the earth can sustain us. and our cars. and our cow farts. however, politicians they want to limit your resources not to save the earth. but to save there power over us.
chips, dips chains & whips.
allthough pc's don't have a high hand in it, global warmiing IS real.
earth will out live it, definately, but men won't do that good...
we may even be completely whiped of teh earth for ever
wazzaaa!
(i don't play tmn anymore...)
your name should be overreactor
heh heh
j/k kind of
chips, dips chains & whips.
Along with the monitor that I'm using right now that's a CRT the total power consumption of the entire rig is about 2.5 amps. that's not much. When it's on stand by I doubt it breaks 1 amp. So I don't think it's that much at all.
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