World's Gaming PCs to require 50 dedicated power stations by 2020

[Ironbuket]

They were doing this story about TV screens a few years back. If anything PC parts are using less power than a few years ago because the industry is already self-aware that the power requirements were getting out of hand.

The only people guilty of using a lot of power are the people with dual or triple high end cards and this is a minority or users.

If you want to moan on about unnecessary power use in home electronics, how about getting people to sit closer the TV instead of having an 80 or 90inch one.

NB: I went from a GTX460 to a GTX970 and the power (measured at socket) was almost the same

[jigger]

I think APU's and FreeSync monitors will have a very big impact between now and 2020. Yo can't get much more efficient than removing the GPU and it's associated power overheads.

[ik9000]

I think APU's and FreeSync monitors will have a very big impact between now and 2020. Yo can't get much more efficient than removing the GPU and it's associated power overheads.

errm GAMING. High end gaming. On an APU? High end. really?

maybe one day.

In the meantime, why waste so much time doing these BS studies when we could just build a raft of nuclear power stations and be done with it.

[EndlessWaves]

[QUOTE=DanceswithUnix;11281But replace your i7 4820K with a Pentium Anniversary Edition? They lost me there.[/quote]

Yup.

For a start few bought the 4820k for gaming, and then to imagine that a Pentium Anniversary Edition is going to make no difference to performance is absurd. Maybe not in the artificial benchmark they tested (unigine heaven) but I'd expect to see some significant minimum/99% FPS differences in actual games.

The Display is an old Apple Cinema HD 23" display that's been replaced with, not another £500 specialist IPS photo editing display, but a TN that's at least half a decade newer and half the price.

You only have to glance through the rest of the article too to see this there's a lot of pointless 'research' here. Tables with TDP figures labelled as 'nameplate power' and 'W/Ghz' figures calculated using them.

Shame on Hexus for reporting it.

[Vorlon99]

Shallow reporting, not enough substance... but things like this do at least make us all think and start a dialogue... I reckon the natural progression of upgrades and tech improvements will mean that we all gradually move into more efficient kit.

However, it is all mute anyway, because by then the zombie apocalypse will have decended upon us and we won't get much chance to game, and before long no chance at all once all the power stations fail. finally, once the powerstation staff are all zombies themselves, all those nuclear power stations are going to go into meltdown and we'll all be toasted anyway
Power consumption problems solved!

[ik9000]

Shallow reporting, not enough substance... but things like this do at least make us all think and start a dialogue... I reckon the natural progression of upgrades and tech improvements will mean that we all gradually move into more efficient kit.

However, it is all mute anyway, because by then the zombie apocalypse will have decended upon us and we won't get much chance to game, and before long no chance at all once all the power stations fail. finally, once the powerstation staff are all zombies themselves, all those nuclear power stations are going to go into meltdown and we'll all be toasted anyway
Power consumption problems solved!

I'll let you off cos you're new here, but as we've gone over in other threads in quite some length. Modern reactor designs have automatic fail-safe cut-outs that in the event of everyone stopping doing anything would shut the core down safely. This constant scaremongering of nuclear power station design serves only to worry the public into naive thinking that "nuclear bad, wind and solar good". It's rubbish and we should get on with nuclear while we have time before oil really gets scarce.

[Vorlon99]

I'll let you off cos you're new here, but as we've gone over in other threads in quite some length. Modern reactor designs have automatic fail-safe cut-outs that in the event of everyone stopping doing anything would shut the core down safely. This constant scaremongering of nuclear power station design serves only to worry the public into naive thinking that "nuclear bad, wind and solar good". It's rubbish and we should get on with nuclear while we have time before oil really gets scarce.

Well, thanks, but I think you misconstrued my comment, bearing in mind I was talking about zombies (not real) then I would have thought you would see my comment for what it was, ie humerous. However, to continue with the serious tone you have adopted, (and I agree with you re nuclear power), in the event of a Zombie scenario, ALL the utilities would break down, there would could easily be a situation where power is disrupted by violent action/re-action to the apocalypse, and the flow of water (essential coolant) could be disrupted, by bodies blocking intakes, pumps failing etc etc, so there could easily be the odd reactor that goes into melt-down. After-all, the earthquake in Japan (no zombies involved) and Chernoble (no zombies involved) certainly went wrong...
But my original post was meant in a humerous vain... happy ?

[jigger]

errm GAMING. High end gaming. On an APU? High end. really?

maybe one day.

In the meantime, why waste so much time doing these BS studies when we could just build a raft of nuclear power stations and be done with it.

I use a 7850k and was very surprised just how much performance is on offer. With some overclocking and fine tuning it can run just about anything at 1920x1080 on mid/high. Yeah it's not high end and you will be at about 30-40FPS most of the time, but you can see the potential for high end performance APU's in the future.

I can see a Zen based APU with HMB running powering games at 2560x1440 next year. Add FreeSync and the new API's to the mix, and I think the future for APU's looks very good.

[ik9000]

Well, thanks, but I think you misconstrued my comment, bearing in mind I was talking about zombies (not real) then I would have thought you would see my comment for what it was, ie humerous. However, to continue with the serious tone you have adopted, (and I agree with you re nuclear power), in the event of a Zombie scenario, ALL the utilities would break down, there would could easily be a situation where power is disrupted by violent action/re-action to the apocalypse, and the flow of water (essential coolant) could be disrupted, by bodies blocking intakes, pumps failing etc etc, so there could easily be the odd reactor that goes into melt-down. After-all, the earthquake in Japan (no zombies involved) and Chernoble (no zombies involved) certainly went wrong...
But my original post was meant in a humerous vain... happy ?

once the core is shut down water is only needed for a temporary period to cool the reactor. Once it is cool no further water is needed. It's only an issue if there's no water or other coolant (liquid metal etc) available for the automatic systems to use.

Fukushima stood up to a larger earthquake than it was designed for, a simultaneous Tsunami that it was never designed for, and still didn't go into meltdown. Had the japanese cultural inability to admit a problem not got in the way there would have been time for proper assistance to have been given to pump water into the thing properly before there was any release of anything. Remeber that was several days afterwards that it happened. And again, modern designs are far better on a number of levels.

[Vorlon99]

once the core is shut down water is only needed for a temporary period to cool the reactor. Once it is cool no further water is needed. It's only an issue if there's no water or other coolant (liquid metal etc) available for the automatic systems to use.

Fukushima stood up to a ......

Thanks m8 for the additional info, and for taking the time to explain... seriously appreciated

[Marcvs]

The level of stupid in this article amazes me.

[Tropi]

The ideal would be low enough power consumption to eliminate all PC fans - then we reduce all that damn noise pollution too - the bane of my life.