Seeing the cost of living is rising, and power bills are not getting any cheaper, rethinking the power our electronics use is rising to the top of the priorities list for many people.
While good gains have been made in the cpu area, graphics cards are not seeing any gains being made in reducing power and increasing performance, in fact power consumption appears to be getting worse, what with the power consumption information about the upcoming nvidia graphics cards. Graphics card linking is also a concern bringing increased power use and a rise in your electric bills.
Of course it all depends how many hours a day you use your machine on full load, but gaming can run into many hours per day if that's what you love doing with your spare time.
Those with consoles will know, you turn them on and off when you want a game, but what about pcs which can require more power than a console? do we forget that they can be left on for much much longer than a console? because they are used for many tasks and are our all in one workhorse.
What I am coming to is asking if any of you have come to a point where power consumption is a big issue for you and if you have a gaming pc which is power hungry that you only use for gaming and turn it on for pc gaming and off when you are done with it.
And if you have another pc which is specifically designed to be energy efficient just for general everyday use including email, browsing, music production, web design, file sorting etc or anything else that can be left on for many more hours which makes sense electricity bill wise.
Electric bills concern me, perhaps they do not for those who are very wealthy but for me, I am considering splitting my PC experience into 2. 1 PC for gaming, and using other more energy efficient parts for a PC for other less power hungry activities.
Thoughts?
While good gains have been made in the cpu area, graphics cards are not seeing any gains being made in reducing power and increasing performance, in fact power consumption appears to be getting worse, what with the power consumption information about the upcoming nvidia graphics cards. Graphics card linking is also a concern bringing increased power use and a rise in your electric bills.
Of course it all depends how many hours a day you use your machine on full load, but gaming can run into many hours per day if that's what you love doing with your spare time.
Those with consoles will know, you turn them on and off when you want a game, but what about pcs which can require more power than a console? do we forget that they can be left on for much much longer than a console? because they are used for many tasks and are our all in one workhorse.
What I am coming to is asking if any of you have come to a point where power consumption is a big issue for you and if you have a gaming pc which is power hungry that you only use for gaming and turn it on for pc gaming and off when you are done with it.
And if you have another pc which is specifically designed to be energy efficient just for general everyday use including email, browsing, music production, web design, file sorting etc or anything else that can be left on for many more hours which makes sense electricity bill wise.
Electric bills concern me, perhaps they do not for those who are very wealthy but for me, I am considering splitting my PC experience into 2. 1 PC for gaming, and using other more energy efficient parts for a PC for other less power hungry activities.
Thoughts?
Instead I use an external usb drive!
