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A gaming PC uses maybe 20-30% of power of an average kitchen appliance like a kettle or a blender. Those are plugged into standard wall sockets just fine.
by izacus 4y ago
A gaming PC uses maybe 20-30% of power of an average kitchen appliance like a kettle or a blender. Those are plugged into standard wall sockets just fine.
- Hamuko 4y agoYeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on. I'll be impressed if a gaming PC can pull half of that during a gaming load.
- nigerianbrince 4y agoFfs don't give them ideas.
- gruez 4y ago>Yeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on ...in areas that use 220/240V. In north america appliances are limited to around 1500W, because the mains voltage is 120V.
- andylynch 4y agoMight depend on where you are and how seriously they take tea. Our very ordinary British kettle is 3kW.
- jcpham2 4y agoDepends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt. Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start servicing stuff like GPU fans and heat sinks. This stuff can be designed NOT to melt the dang 6 pin 12v rail
- jcpham2 4y agoDepends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt. Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start servicing stuff like GPU fans and heat sinks. This stuff can be designed NOT to melt the dang 12v rail
- izacus 4y agoSo you went up to cca 40-50% power use of a single kettle. Whoop.