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six states that are abiding by the cec's title 20 standards and it's all fun and games for me since i'm safely up in canada where we don't have to deal with any of the restrictions that oh wait oh they apply in bc too more like canada am i right well let's get down to business and figure out what the heck is going on here and also tell you about our sponsor glassware thanks to glasswire for sponsoring this video instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your pc or Android device use offer code Linus to get 25 off glasswire at the link below step one of building the pc equivalent of a 1960s muscle car is grabbing the most power hungry components possible i'm going to be using the 11th gen core i9 11900k according to this review by non-tech Intel's final 14 nanometer flagship has only two-thirds as many cores as AMD's price competitive 5900 x will be incapable of drawing twice as much power under peak load this thing must not be allowed right nope it's all good oh well yeah believe it or not the cec and every other entity following its guidelines just don't care how much power your CPU draws under load the primary concern is how much power is being wasted by machines that are sitting at idle so we should be able to use any modern CPU we want as long as our motherboard is configured to allow deep enough sleep states and our operating system is configured to activate them within 30 minutes as for RAM i have chosen 64 gigabytes of oh i have chosen 64 gigabytes of wasteful RGB lights believe it or not these don't make your computer go faster surely california hates these right actually the only situation where your system memory could put you in non-compliance would be if you had less than eight gigabytes of it so go ham on your big chungus memory kits just make sure you don't go overboard on your motherboard this guy right here it's compliant but what happens if i was to have the portiest motherboard you could possibly imagine this thing can't be compliant is it it's even more compliant it's more compliant all right although this thing's a monster and has like six CPU power connectors and two 24 pins it still is totally fine the thing is that the expandability score is what actually matters so things like memory slots expansion cards and even back panel ports the higher expandability score or es in brief every pc is given a power draw allowance based on this score and it all mostly makes sense a hard drive gets more power allowance than SSD for example because it takes more power to spin up a disk most importantly though if that expandability score passes 690 nice then you're exempt from the typical energy consumption standards almost you'll still need to pass the performance bar for the energy efficient Ethernet but that's another story for another time the bottom line is that even things like liquid cooling contribute to this score so any pc with premium gaming motherboards like this one or this monster well it increases its power allowance so knowing that i guess this giant fan triple aio cooler helps me so yeah don't press the buzzer this thing's fine but surely this rtx 3090 isn't compliant like it can draw over 400 watts peak by itself alone and NVIDIA recommends a thousand watt power supply so any mortal that dares to yeah yeah it's fine there's another way to get around the regulations by combining a powerful GPU so that's a card with over 600 gigabytes per second of bandwidth with a power supply of over 600 watts regardless of the efficiency and the pc falls into the air quotes high expandability computer bracket and is exempt from regulation even the 1600 watt monster well yeah it's totally fine and this thousand watt piece of i mean come on it weighs absolutely nothing it's also totally fine even though it shouldn't be for wildfire hazard reasons but these guys right here no dice that's where the efficiency part really comes into effect 80 plus is a body that certifies power supplies for their efficiency and the gold tier just so happens to align perfectly with the minimum efficiency requirements for title 20. 80 plus is just a brand name of sorts so you can have a power supply that passes without acquiring the stamp but it does need to hit that gold target unless it's over 600 watts and paired with a chunker GPU and that's for a good reason up until recently bronze rated power supplies were considered ds but nowadays bronze is pretty low tier with gold platinum and titanium efficiencies all being more affordable to boot while these bronze guys may be more wallet friendly in the short term both you and your local power grid will pay the price in power and electrical overhead respectively but it also just doesn't really matter because you're probably building your own pc anyway fortunately diy belts don't need to follow title 20 rules so who does this apply to only medium to lard manufacturers in these six states right here if you're outside of those states don't worry for now if you are in those states well you still probably don't need to worry if you build your own pcs you're fine if you're buying a pc made from parts from a small business you're also probably fine title 20 is squarely aimed at mid to high volume producers so like dell alienware hp lenovo the kind of brands that pump out hundreds if not thousands of systems system integrators like origin pc cyber power and main gear will feel the effects but because they are doing bespoke builds rather than hundreds of the same pc they should be able to work within the guidelines just fine as long as they follow the rules how about an example this is luke's old pc and in it we have a Corsair tx 750m a gold rated 750 watt power supply that's good it's above the 600 watt minimum required to be called a high expandability pc but because the GPU here is a measly gtx 950 it now needs to be certified before it can be sold by someone like dell alienware same for alienware's aurora lineup this one does sport the 1000 watt power supply option which apparently is gold rated according to some dell help forum posts it does not meet the threshold for exemption because the rtx 2080 super clocks in at 496 gigabytes per second of bandwidth for this to be sold it would need to be tested by a third party and market it as such and that's expensive dell confirmed with us that future r10 and our 12 models would meet or exceed title 20 guidelines but that doesn't really answer why they didn't get this certified in the first place because they definitely knew it was coming and dell isn't alone here any medium to large pc builders will need to build and certify their machines under title 20 if they plan to do any business in the world's fifth largest economy lying somewhere between germany and the uk in size or any add-on states macroview title 20 declares the minimum efficiency levels for energy and water consumption in products everything from light bulbs to plumbing what we're particularly concerned with is article 4 of the standard appliances which categorizes pcs into a handful of groups think laptop desktop workstation and then further defines the allowable idle power consumption of each device with this rather complex formula the reason all of this is even a thing is very straightforward as pcs keep getting more powerful and power hungry if you extrapolate that a bit to somewhere near 2040 the sheer volume of power required for computation will surpass the global power output yeah seriously in less than 20 years there will be more computing than there is power to run computers and that's not even taking into account the rapid automotive electrification but that's a whole different ball of worms and that is why california is pushing for these tighter controls not just to reduce their emissions from power generation but also reduce the infrastructure costs of upscaling and moving that power around if you can nip the downstream power demand in the bud your existing infrastructure can go longer before upgrades are needed computers alone account for roughly three percent of residential and seven percent of commercial energy use in california that is no small amount of power title 20 is estimated to save more than 2.3 billion kilowatt hours of energy that's the equivalent of the entire city of san francisco yearly there will be some trickle-down costs to the consumer of course as third-party certification isn't free and with 80 plus bronze and silver no longer being an option the cost of an 80 plus gold or higher power supply will have to come from somewhere and you will be footing the bill for that but again if you still want a bronze power supply you can just build your own computer we've got a whole host of pc build guys you can work off of and just jump right in globally there's an energy revolution taking place whether it be through electric vehicles renewable energy or increased computerization of our daily lives when the chip shortage does end hopefully half soon the problem of sheer power consumption generation and distribution is dead ahead if we play our cards right today hopefully we'll be able to power all of the chips tomorrow thanks to drop for sponsoring this video drop and marvel have partnered together to bring your favorite superheroes to your pc setup the collection features heroes such as captain america iron man and black panther as well as a set based on the movie avengers infinity war each set features heroic touches such as captain america star logo or black panther's mask and everything is sculpted in drop's signature mt3 profile which features scoop keys and double shot abs construction you'll get 160 keycaps including a full numpad and extra modifiers for different layouts so why wait bring out your inner hero and order your set at the link down below it just says throw to Techquickie actually let's show them to the tech video those things are horribly inefficient it's hilarious 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