New study highlights the ridiculous amount of energy consumed by gaming PCs

[cliffordcooley]

Nobody finds a sport car's fuel consumption ridiculous

Yes some do, you can't say nobody.

 

[Mr Mister]

That adds to one of the reasons why overclocking is overrated; consumes too much power.

 

[cliffordcooley]

The decision to overclock is no different than deciding which i5 to purchase. If overclocking is overrated, then so is choosing the fastest i5. After all the slowest i5 is basically an underclock, so you know within reason it will handle an overclock.

Overclocking is not overrated for those that actually need an overclock. Overclocking is only overrated for someone that is purchasing an i5/i7, when a Celeron/Pentium is all they actually need. That is when an overclock would not be noticed, and when people start suggesting overclocks are overrated.

 

[EClyde]

Energy is never wasted.

 

[nismo91]

If you can afford a triple-SLI gaming machine, you surely can afford a 20$ energy-meter and be glad once it tells you otherwise.

running 872W PC continuously for 4.4hrs a day for a year on average they said.. >1000W PSUs must be selling like hotcakes then.. what an utter bs.

 

[Razer]

75 terawatt hours in 2012? seems legit, because I heard back in 2012, what those NSA guys done everyday were bitcoin mining, play minesweeper, and running crysis with their power-hungry-super-quantum-servers for average 4.4 hours each day

 

[BadThad]

What a ludicrous story.......Wherein lies the problem if the gamer is paying his power bill? This is is just another attempt to demonize yet another group in the name of socialism.....

If you don't like playing PC games then stick to monoploy, tic-tac-toe, or see what type of stupid anagrams you can come up with on your solar powered pocket calculator when you turn the numbers upside down.....or better yet, just get a life and stop worrying about what other people do for fun as long as they can afford to pay for it.

Don't fret, this story is completely bogus. I heard it's getting picked up by The Onion!