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No Gaming PC for you!
« on: July 26, 2021, 06:27:00 PM »
Apparently you can't buy certain computers in certain states now because of power consumption regulations in those states.
The article talks about Dell but this effects any PC that violate the regs.

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Dell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states in America because they demand more energy than local standards allow.

Customers seeking to purchase, for example, an Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 Gaming Desktop from Dell's website and have it shipped to California are now presented with a message that tells buyers they're out of luck.

"This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states," the website says. "Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled."

Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/dell_energy_pcs/

Gaming PC's BANNED By Woke States!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxUMqJmh1pc
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2021, 06:31:45 PM »
I bet they can buy the parts to make their own ghost PC.
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2021, 06:36:48 PM »
All you need is a friend in an unblocked state.

It's not like firearms, the feds are not likely to care if your friend receives the package and then sends it on to you. 

And states don't have the right to go through your mail so they'll never know.
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2021, 06:40:06 PM »
Larping CoD requires no electricity. Doesn’t even require airsoft if you’re tough enough. Don’t tell them the respawn won’t work.
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2021, 07:06:52 PM »
What about the electronics show loophole?  Anyone can buy graphics cards with no recourse.

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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2021, 07:20:03 PM »
So back to the abacus?

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Such concern about energy efficiency appears to be appropriate given the findings of a 2015 Semiconductor Industry Association report [PDF] that, given a benchmark system of 10-14 Joules/per bit transition, "computing will not be sustainable by 2040, when the energy required for computing will exceed the estimated world’s energy production."
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2021, 07:23:34 PM »

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Such concern about energy efficiency appears to be appropriate given the findings of a 2015 Semiconductor Industry Association report [PDF] that, given a benchmark system of 10-14 Joules/per bit transition, "computing will not be sustainable by 2040, when the energy required for computing will exceed the estimated world’s energy production."

So back to the abacus?

Wake me when one of the left's doom and gloom predictions, aka We're all going to die unless we do x, actually happens.
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2021, 08:54:32 PM »
 :facepalm:

Makes me glad I bought an 800 watt power supply two years ago. Hopefully it will last me long enough to get out of this state.   =|
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2021, 08:58:38 PM »
Everything will be banned for the environment.  You will own nothing, eat insect protein, die early, and like it.

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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2021, 09:00:07 PM »
I have a pre-ban gaming PC with several high-capacity hard drives.  Does this mean I'm about to get jackbooted?
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2021, 09:00:30 PM »
Everything will be banned for the environment.  You will own nothing, eat insect protein, die early, and like it.

You forgot "live in pods"
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2021, 09:02:53 PM »
I have a pre-ban gaming PC with several high-capacity hard drives.  Does this mean I'm about to get jackbooted?

10gb HDD limit
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2021, 09:10:45 PM »
Everything will be banned for the environment.  You will own nothing, eat insect protein, die early, and like it.

Remember Soylent Green is set in 2022.  [tinfoil]
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2021, 09:03:10 AM »
Haven't kept up with the latest and greatest gaming hardware lately but watching some videos on the gaming PC matter some of the newer high end video cards suck up 500 or more watts at full throttle. That's just the video cards.
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2021, 10:05:37 AM »
It's not the PC in-use power, it's mostly a standby or hibernate power issue with a smattering of capacity-weighted incidentals in the mix. I'm posting from my phone and don't have time to dig for the link, but go to the JayzTwoCents youtube channel. A week or so back he posted a really good breakdown of what's affected and how the scoring matrix works.

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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2021, 10:12:52 AM »
Last month Californians could plug in their electric cars.

Now they can't plug in their computers.

And soon they won't even be able to buy bacon to assuage their sorrows.

Why in the hell does anyone want to live in that *expletive deleted*ed up state?
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Re: No Gaming PC for you!
« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2021, 10:25:57 AM »
It's the the PC in-use power, it's mostly a standby or hibernate power issue with a smattering of capacity-weighted incidentals in the mix. I'm posting from my phone and don't have time to dig for the link, but go to the JayzTwoCents youtube channel. A week or so back he posted a really good breakdown of what's affected and how the scoring matrix works.

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I try to watch his videos from time to time but he gets stuck in the super high end gaming end of the pool too often for my tastes. Things along the lines of, with this $2,000 video card I get 200 FPS while I only get 190 totally unplayable fps with this $500 one.  He doesn't always do it but he does it enough where it gets on my nerves. Makes it appear he's pushing high end equipment for $$$.
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