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Normal people dont know what perf per watt means dont be like that
by Unfrozen0688 3y ago
Normal people dont know what perf per watt means dont be like that
- Dalewyn 3y agoI'm upvoting this to counter the downvotes because, unfortunately, normal people don't know. Specifically, normal people don't know what "watt" is. Seriously. There is a reason electrician is a skilled profession. Most of us here do know watts and the like, so it's easy to forget that normal people aren't like us.
- Jonnax 3y agoNormal people understand watts. Because they know what an electric heater is. And using 2x to 3x more electricity means more heat in their room. Also many countries have smart electricity meters with in home units which tell them exactly how many watts are currently being consumed and how much that costs them.
- callalex 3y agoI’m going to push back on this with a simple example. Go to your local hardware store and check out the electric space heater section. There will be a wide variety of units rated for small rooms, medium rooms, and large rooms, based on square footage. The heaters will have a variety of form factors and physical dimensions. Many of them will have mentions of “eco” and “efficiency”. Every single one of them, and I mean literally, will be a 1500W heater (or whatever your region’s equivalent maximum load per plug is which may vary in 240v countries). Exact same wattage, all 100% efficient because their only job is to produce heat, with wildly different dimensions and text on the box. Customers will swear up and down about the difference between these units.
- withinboredom 3y agoI had to do this after my gas costs went well above my electric costs. Maybe you are in a country/area where your hardware store doesn’t supply a variety of heaters, but at my local store, no two models were the same wattage.
- supertrope 3y agoIt grinds my gears that electric lawn mowers are marketed by voltage even though that has no relation to grass cut per time.
- grujicd 3y agoNormal people know that 60w bulb can burn you.
- Abroszka 3y agoDo they? Even I have problem nowadays with this, because they write 60W but it's a LED and it acts like a 60W bulb but it's not 60W. 60W is more like branding.
- SomeoneFromCA 3y ago60w bulb can literally blind you (temporarily)these days.
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- aurareturn 3y agoThey might not know the term "perf per watt" but they feel the heat, fan, noise, and speed on devices they use.
- Unfrozen0688 3y agoNone of those are a problem on a desktop PC only on shitty laptops.
- grujicd 3y agoDo you have experience with modern high watagae CPU during summer? Yes, good cooler can make it work. But where does that heat end up? It gets blown out from the case and first heats your legs (depending on desk, position to wall, etc), and then the entire room. It can be very noticable and not in a good way.
- Unfrozen0688 3y ago>Do you have experience with modern high watagae CPU during summer? i7 4790k w noctua cooler is fine :)
- vladvasiliu 3y agoDo you have A/Cin that room? I actually have a similar desktop next to my legs, only it has the Xeon version with twice the cores. It's an absolute PITA in the summer with no A/C. It's also quite noisy when the temperature in the room reaches 27 ºC.
- szundi 3y agoSame cpu, not bothered to replace until maybe these days
- nick__m 3y agoI have 2 saved profiles in my bios, one where the cpu is allow to consume has much current as it want that I use from mid October to mid May and one where the CPU is capped at 65W for the rest of the year. I do something similar with my GPU, 75% cap in the summer, 105% cap in the winter.