Help me out here, I want to start a rumor that Asus' new 3000-watt power supply with the 240 volt plug for running four NVidia RTX5090s is a sign that in 2026 you'll only be able to play AAA games in Europe because the American power grid can't handle it.
Maybe we can start telling gamers that if they don’t support spending taxes to upgrade the grid they’ll be stuck at low-poly 1080p/30fps for good by 2027?
Tricking people into caring about the public good isn’t the worst use of a GPU I’ve seen….
@mhoye Taxes have very little to do with public good. They are mostly stolen by liberals. In any case, American homes have 220V circuits. How do you think the air conditioner is powered? Bread comes from the store huh?
@mhoye Our circuits are actually a split 230v for most homes, with the center tap being connected to neutral/ground, so most appliances just use one half of the transformer. If you use the entire transformer, you get 230v. Except in apartments where such things run off 208v instead because they're going across two legs of the 3 phase. We usually have 2-3 circuits wired up for 230v in the house, so if we wanted to run higher end computers we could just install another.
@mhoye It would actually be more doable in the US since our electric rates are usually in the 8 to 15 cents per Kwh range, while European power is 30-60 cents per kwh. If you run that 3000w card for 8 hours a day it'll cost you $320 per month just to run your computer over there. OTOH, most AAA games can be made to run on a 15 watt steamdeck, so it's only graphics whores that need to worry.
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