But even without need for 3D mode higher end graphics cards are just amazing power hogs... practically like if car would suck twenty liters per hour just for idling.
Also CPUs should definitely be such that they can adjust clock speeds of individual cores widely basing to their load and put unnecessary cores into some deep sleep modes.
One sentence: Self-centered egoistic stupidity of modern urban human.
Those ones not concerned about excessive use of natural resources and disturbing climate should be thrown into middle of north Atlantic winter storms in rowing boats.
At least before industrial revolution and modern times it was made clear to everyone that this little pest specie isn't above nature...
OK, as I'm typing this on a handheld that's been charged from a solar charger in the sunroof of my car I'm start off by asking you where you think double standards start and end?
No-one
needs a personal computer. The very fact that any of us have one puts us into the unnecessary consumption camp. My laptop consumes roughly 70W when it's running flat out and that's powering everything - dual core E9300, SSD, 15" LCD - everything.
So why do I have a personal desktop? For fun.
Now, in the same way that eating meat, driving my car and taking my PPL(H) lessons damage the environment, I'm not overly concerned because my carbon footprint is pretty low, and I have no children so it ends with me.
I've just built a house. It's German designed and extraordinarily efficient in terms of insulation and harvesting spare energy from the wind, ground and the sun, but it still used up more of my carbon budget building it than staying in my old one for the rest of my life.
Now, I can remember having to drive around the UK with a pocketful of 10p pieces because there were no mobile phones. People are slaughtering thousands of their fellow nationals in Africa to get control of the Palladium and Molybdenum mines that allow mobiles to be made, but I'm not going to give up my mobile.
The truth is that as a species we are selfish and prone to indulging our desires above the needs of other humans, let alone the animals and plants around us.
I am aware of all of this, and I admire Big.Wayne for constantly pressing his belief that ULV computing is the way forward, and actually, there isn't one of us that doesn't want the lowest CPU power consumption simply because it helps with the overclock.
You, on the other hand are simply being self-righteous, and that's not at all admirable.
You want to throw human beings that don't agree with you to their certain deaths in the icy North Atlantic. Why? Possibly you honestly think they deserve it, possibly you think such people should be punished. Possibly you're a sick freak that watches movies like SAW and enjoys it, whilst depleting the planets resources a bit more. You probably just thought it was a clever thing to say.
You want to go back to before the industrial revolution when this little pest species wasn't above nature? Why? Have you ever seen someone who died from a wound that was infected and could have been cured with penicillin, only there were no antibiotics and they died in agony, stinking and making crunchy noises every time they moved because gas gangrene had set in? Do you really want old people to die at 45? Do you really want all the teeth in your head to drop out or your girlfriend to not wear make-up? Do you want to have to go out and catch and kill your own food? Do you want to have to stay in one place for the whole of your miserable life because the best form of transport available is a horse and you'll never be able to afford a horse? Of course you don't.
So please stop using up the planets resources coming on here and being a self-righteous little prig. If you had an ounce of social concience you'd sign up for overseas volunteer work and when you came back, you'd grab every little modern luxury and hug it, just like I did. And I appreciate that not everyone has what I have. That doesn't mean I'm giving it up though.
........My machine at idle is using 290watts 