The current broad trend in all technology is moving toward increased efficiency in order to decrease energy consumption, which has various negative effects.
I just saw a rumour that an upcoming Intel CPU will have special performance mode allowing 350W energy draw. It also seems that upcoming AMD CPUs will have higher TDP than the current generation.
What is the sense of this in the point of view of the broad trend I mentioned in the beginning? State regulation in my opinion is sometimes a good thing and at this point it seems that power draw of consumer computers should be limited.
I think that limits of 50W for CPU, 50W for integrated GPU and 150W for discrete GPU would satisfy needs of most people.
Parts with higher power draw could be heavilly taxed so that they would be financially viable only for proffesionals who would use them productively.
I understand that some people may find my idea not beneficial for whatever reasons but what is happening now in this part of PC market is ridiculous and needs to stop.
(and production of virtual currencies should be banned completely as a huge energy waste, but that is a different topic.)
I just saw a rumour that an upcoming Intel CPU will have special performance mode allowing 350W energy draw. It also seems that upcoming AMD CPUs will have higher TDP than the current generation.
What is the sense of this in the point of view of the broad trend I mentioned in the beginning? State regulation in my opinion is sometimes a good thing and at this point it seems that power draw of consumer computers should be limited.
I think that limits of 50W for CPU, 50W for integrated GPU and 150W for discrete GPU would satisfy needs of most people.
Parts with higher power draw could be heavilly taxed so that they would be financially viable only for proffesionals who would use them productively.
I understand that some people may find my idea not beneficial for whatever reasons but what is happening now in this part of PC market is ridiculous and needs to stop.
(and production of virtual currencies should be banned completely as a huge energy waste, but that is a different topic.)
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