stop stop soft stuff the big scary regulation boogeyman is coming to take
away your gaming pc but only under very specific
circumstances in fact everything on this table from the compact Intel beast
canyon neck to this gaming pc from ek which is probably compliant which raises
the question if an rtx 3090 equipped monster like this limbos under the
california energy commission's bar why does the fire even exist and how did
dell manage to bonk it well to find out we gathered these parts
right here from our warehouse with the goal of
building a gaming pc that couldn't be shipped to any of the 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
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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
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