Power requirements in PCs have grown enormously in the last few years. Whereas once we could survive with 300 Watt power supplies, and if you had a really beefy setup maybe 500 Watts. Now most of us have power supplies either at or near to the 1000 Watt mark in our ever greater need to satisfy our lust for more performance and feed our behemoths that give us the eye-candy we love so much. However you'd have to live under a rock not to have noticed the global shift in recent years away from hedonism and towards a more conservative approach that is designed to retain what little is left of our planet after the industrial revolution.



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