Lets save the planet ....

blackninja

blackninja

blackninja

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OK - I have overclocked practically every processor and graphics card that I have owned ... and I have often upped the voltage to do it too!

Now I do understand that Intel & co want a safe amount of headroom for their products to work under a wide range of circumstances without fail so they make their components require a certain amount of voltage (which produces energy waste as heat)... I can either take up the slack by overclocking within the prescribed limits of voltage using up that juice and get more value from the (V^2 bit) power consumption :D or I can reduce the power requirements (ie, undervolt) such that I am getting what I paid for but without any extra trees/coal/oil being turned into CO2 above and beyond what I need to run my processor at its rated speed. Then again I can simply do my best and get a big cooler and use loads more energy just for the hell of it (hours worth of Prime 95 on a quad anyone?).

A case in point is my E6320 that has a vid of 1.32 to run at 1.86 GHz .. I run it at 1.0 volt at the rated speed without issue .. so why on earth is there a 32% overvoltage to run this chip? Hell, from the factory my quad is volted for a speed of 3.2 GHz but clocked at 2.4 .. I wonder how much energy worldwide is being used purely as safety margin? AMD haven't been providing that amount of margin lately so maybe they are the green chip maker deserving of our support ? :p but they are getting better at this I hear!

Yes, you have guessed it - I am going green. Hence my decision to get rid of my 8800GTX and get a 260 GTX ... as soon as I saw the idle power consumption I knew I had to get one and now I want 2 so that I can be doubly good to the planet!!! I also would urge Nvidia to allow me to 'adjust' the safety margin for myself and to satisfy my conscience whilst at it ...
 
Do you not think that an unecessary upgrade from the 8800gtx is bad for the environment? Given the implications of creating a new graphics card, shipping it, disposing of your old gfx, packaging of your new etc. Infact i would say overall it is worse for the environment to upgrade before you really need to, whether the 260GTX idles lower or not..

Im all for doing a little bit here and there for the environment but this seems a little :s
 
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You should get an Atom processor and stick to flash based games and Elasto Mania :D...(anyone?)

Buy your graphics card from a local thrift shop or eBay(though make sure it's is sent via low-carbon methods though). As PESolution stated creating new electronics often produces more carbon dioxide then you will save in the products lifetime.

I would follow suit if I believed in crysis level man made global warming, or if I liked wearing snowhats and following the crowd. Alas I don't, but whatever helps you sleep at night man.
 
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