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For what it's worth, I had to draw two dedicated electrical circuits up to my home office because my custom PC was simply too much load on its own, let alone th
by dsacco 10y ago
For what it's worth, I had to draw two dedicated electrical circuits up to my home office because my custom PC was simply too much load on its own, let alone the four monitors and assorted other equipment I have.
Granted, my computer is about $10,000 of hardware with four GPUs; my point is that I'm not sure it's poetic license. You can definitely build a computer, even a custom laptop, that would at least strain typical circuits and maybe trip them with other peripherals attached.
- Veratyr 10y agoI dunno, a standard residential US circuit is max 15A at 120V, or 1800W. A GTX980 is 165W and the highest powered Xeon I could find was 165W. A Xeon + 4 GPUs + power supply loss comes to around 1050W and between the motherboard, RAM, SSDs, HDDs, monitors, speakers, cooling and such I'm sure you can push it high enough that it causes issues but I really can't see that coming from a laptop, even with peripherals.
- seanp2k2 10y agoIf you can plug in a hairdryer or space heater or vacuum cleaner, it'll run any single-mobo desktop I can think of without issue. Pretty much every US dwelling is set up to handle those on most of the outlets (1200-1800 watts typically). 2000 watts is a LOT. Laptop, no freaking way. Consider even just the heat dissipation.