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stop stop soft stuff the big scary regulation boogeyman is coming to take

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away your gaming pc but only under very specific

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circumstances in fact everything on this table from the compact Intel beast

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canyon neck to this gaming pc from ek which is probably compliant which raises

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the question if an rtx 3090 equipped monster like this limbos under the

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california energy commission's bar why does the fire even exist and how did

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dell manage to bonk it well to find out we gathered these parts

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right here from our warehouse with the goal of

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building a gaming pc that couldn't be shipped to any of the six states that

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are abiding by the cec's title 20 standards and it's all fun and games for

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me since i'm safely up in canada where we don't have to deal with any of the

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restrictions that oh wait

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oh they apply in bc too more like canada am

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i right well let's get down to business and figure out what the heck is going on

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step one of building the pc equivalent of a 1960s muscle car is grabbing the

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most power hungry components possible i'm going to be using the 11th gen core

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i9 11900k according to this review by

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non-tech Intel's final 14 nanometer flagship has only two-thirds as many

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cores as AMD's price competitive 5900 x

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will be incapable of drawing twice as much power under peak load this thing

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must not be allowed right nope it's all good oh

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well yeah believe it or not the cec and every other entity following its

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guidelines just don't care how much power your CPU draws under load the

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primary concern is how much power is being wasted by machines that are

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sitting at idle so we should be able to use any modern CPU we want as long as

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our motherboard is configured to allow deep enough sleep states and our

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operating system is configured to activate them within 30 minutes as for

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RAM i have chosen 64 gigabytes of oh i

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have chosen 64 gigabytes of wasteful RGB

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lights believe it or not these don't make your computer go faster surely

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california hates these right

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actually the only situation where your system memory could put you in

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non-compliance would be if you had less than eight gigabytes of it so

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go ham on your big chungus memory kits just make sure you don't go overboard on

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your motherboard this guy right here it's compliant but what happens if i was

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to have the portiest motherboard you could possibly imagine this thing can't

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be compliant is it it's even more compliant it's more

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compliant all right although this thing's a

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monster and has like six CPU power connectors

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and two 24 pins it still is totally fine the thing is

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that the expandability score is what actually matters

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so things like memory slots expansion cards and even back panel ports the

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higher expandability score or es in brief every pc is given a power draw

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allowance based on this score and it all

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mostly makes sense a hard drive gets more power allowance than SSD for

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example because it takes more power to spin up a disk most importantly though

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if that expandability score passes 690

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nice then you're exempt from the typical energy consumption standards

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almost you'll still need to pass the performance bar for the energy efficient

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Ethernet but that's another story for another time the bottom line is that

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even things like liquid cooling contribute to this score so any pc with

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premium gaming motherboards like this one or

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this monster well it increases its power allowance

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so knowing that i guess this giant fan triple aio cooler

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helps me so yeah don't press the buzzer this thing's

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fine but surely this rtx 3090

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isn't compliant like it can draw over 400 watts peak

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by itself alone and NVIDIA recommends a

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thousand watt power supply so any mortal

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that dares to

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yeah yeah it's fine there's another way to get around the

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regulations by combining a powerful GPU

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so that's a card with over 600 gigabytes per second of bandwidth with a power

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supply of over 600 watts regardless of

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the efficiency and the pc falls into the air quotes high expandability computer

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bracket and is exempt from regulation

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even the 1600 watt monster well

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yeah it's totally fine and

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this thousand watt piece of i mean come on it weighs absolutely

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nothing it's also totally fine

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even though it shouldn't be for wildfire hazard reasons

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but these guys right here no dice that's where the efficiency part

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really comes into effect 80 plus is a body that certifies power supplies for

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their efficiency and the gold tier just so happens to align perfectly with the

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minimum efficiency requirements for title 20. 80 plus is just a brand name

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of sorts so you can have a power supply that passes without acquiring the stamp

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but it does need to hit that gold target

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unless it's over 600 watts and paired

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with a chunker GPU and that's for a good reason

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up until recently bronze rated power supplies were considered

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ds but nowadays bronze is pretty low

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tier with gold platinum and titanium efficiencies all being more affordable

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to boot while these bronze guys may be more wallet friendly in the short term

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both you and your local power grid will pay the price in power and electrical

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overhead respectively but it also just

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doesn't really matter because you're probably building your own pc anyway

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fortunately diy belts don't need to follow title 20 rules

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so who does this apply to

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only medium to lard manufacturers in these six states right here

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if you're outside of those states don't worry for now if you are in those states

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well you still probably don't need to worry if you build your own pcs you're

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fine if you're buying a pc made from parts from a small business you're also

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probably fine title 20 is squarely aimed

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at mid to high volume producers so like

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dell alienware hp lenovo the kind of

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brands that pump out hundreds if not thousands of systems system integrators

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like origin pc cyber power and main gear will feel the effects but because they

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are doing bespoke builds rather than hundreds of the same pc they should be

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able to work within the guidelines just fine as long as they follow the rules

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how about an example this is luke's old pc and in it we have a Corsair tx 750m

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a gold rated 750 watt power supply that's good it's above the 600 watt

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minimum required to be called a high expandability pc

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but because the GPU here is a measly gtx

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950 it now needs to be certified before it can be sold by someone like dell

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alienware same for alienware's aurora lineup this

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one does sport the 1000 watt power

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supply option which apparently is gold rated according to some dell help forum

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posts it does not meet the threshold for exemption because the rtx 2080 super

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clocks in at 496 gigabytes per second of bandwidth for this to be sold it would

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need to be tested by a third party and market it as such and that's expensive

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dell confirmed with us that future r10 and our 12 models would meet or exceed

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title 20 guidelines but that doesn't really answer why they didn't get this

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certified in the first place because they definitely knew it was coming and

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dell isn't alone here any medium to large pc builders will need to build and

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certify their machines under title 20 if they plan to do any business in the

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world's fifth largest economy lying somewhere between germany and the uk in

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size or any add-on states macroview

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title 20 declares the minimum efficiency levels for energy and water consumption

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in products everything from light bulbs to plumbing what we're particularly

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concerned with is article 4 of the standard appliances which categorizes

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pcs into a handful of groups think laptop desktop workstation and then

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further defines the allowable idle power consumption of each device with this

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rather complex formula the reason all of this is even a thing

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is very straightforward as pcs keep getting more powerful and power hungry

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if you extrapolate that a bit to somewhere near 2040 the sheer volume of

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power required for computation will surpass the global power output yeah

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seriously in less than 20 years there will be more computing than there is

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power to run computers and that's not even taking into account the rapid

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automotive electrification but that's a whole different ball of worms

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and that is why california is pushing for these tighter controls not just to

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reduce their emissions from power generation but also reduce the

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infrastructure costs of upscaling and moving that power around if you can nip

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the downstream power demand in the bud your existing infrastructure can go

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longer before upgrades are needed computers alone account for roughly

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three percent of residential and seven percent of commercial energy use in

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california that is no small amount of power title 20 is estimated to save more

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than 2.3 billion kilowatt hours of energy that's the equivalent of the

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entire city of san francisco yearly there will be some trickle-down

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costs to the consumer of course as third-party certification isn't free and

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with 80 plus bronze and silver no longer being an option the cost of an 80 plus

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gold or higher power supply will have to come from somewhere and you will be

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footing the bill for that but again if you still want a bronze power supply you

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can just build your own computer we've got a whole host of pc build guys you

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can work off of and just jump right in globally there's an energy

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revolution taking place whether it be through electric vehicles renewable

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energy or increased computerization of our daily lives when the chip shortage

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does end hopefully half soon the problem of sheer power consumption generation

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but