Revised EU regulations basically ban 8K TV sales along with some 4K QD-OLED, OLED, and QLED sets as well.
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Not really. The market is basically self regulating through innovation.
The only way you can power limit a PC is by applying the rule to prebuilt cases. And that's fine, but how many businesses still buy pre built cases? Everyone is using laptops, NUCs and cloud computing now.
So given that businesses don't buy many prebuilt tower PCs the only ones affected by the rule would be gamers buying a prebuilt Dell etc - but that market is quite small.
So effectively a 500w cap on pre built tower PCs would save very little electricity so it's a waste of time.
And power limits on individual components would be extraordinarily complicated and have massive unintended consequences.
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Just have PCIe-SIG to actually enforce specifications.
PCIe spec has clearly defined power limits.
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Some USA states already tried didnt they?
www.dualshockers.com
High-End Gaming PCs Banned in 6 US States Based on an Energy Bill
Consoles have survived the bill but PCs not.
www.dualshockers.com
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Some USA states already tried didnt they?
High-End Gaming PCs Banned in 6 US States Based on an Energy Bill
Consoles have survived the bill but PCs not.
It does make you wonder where the future of gaming lies.
I read some time ago that Moore's Law is comprehensively dead now. Quantum physics means it's just not possible to make chips much smaller. Any increase in processing has to come from new science or firmware or just more transistors, the latter meaning more energy consumption.
NVIDIA have to keep coming up with new firmware, optimising what they have, or increasing power consumption. And they are pretty much topping out on power consumption already. How far can they go before governments step in and start setting limits?