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The power usage is a serious issue, I recently scrapped an old PC. It was perfectly fine and usable, but I found it draws with graphics card more than 200W. And
by syntex 4y ago
The power usage is a serious issue, I recently scrapped an old PC. It was perfectly fine and usable, but I found it draws with graphics card more than 200W. And taking into account how much electricity rose in Europe it's super expensive to run. And the new one it's 15 times less. So let's take care at least a bit about the environment.
- doubled112 4y ago> take care at least a bit about the environment I always take time to consider where the balance point is between replacing working, but less efficient equipment with newer, more efficient equipment. It took materials and energy to produce the old one. I know electricity is expensive some places, but even then, sometimes the break even point is years in the future. Despite all of this, I only realize its more complicated than I hope.
- ibz 4y ago> let's take care at least a bit about the environment You know that producing that PC used way more energy than it would consume if you left it running? > taking into account how much electricity rose in Europe This seems like your main reason actually. Your wallet, not the environment. If the energy prices went down, you would have kept the old PC around rather than having it end up in a landfill or shipped to a poor country where people literally burn the PCBs to recover tiny bits of rare metals.
- tux2bsd 4y ago[dead]
- sgt 4y agoI think your priorities are a bit off. If you want to help the environment, look at your other habits first that have impacts that are orders of magnitude more. Flying, driving, plastic, food, etc