Gaming PC's BANNED By Woke States!
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Until they start going after individual components for going over whatever BS power targets they set, you should be able to still build a PC and not have to worry about this garbage. There are a bunch of power saving features in PCs that mainly exist to meet some power target regulations somewhere in the world that can be freely turned off without repercussions.
Given that high refresh rate monitors will be targeted in December though, expect them to start banning the sale of high end GPUs and other power hungry components eventually in any state that incorporates these regulations.
Notice that they have exemptions for actual power hogs like server farms?
This is all about control.
I don't disagree with you at all. My point is that, at least at the moment, this is something that only affects OEMs (and presumably SI companies like CyberpowerPC). It's a big deal still because there is a large number of people unwilling to build themselves a PC for various reasons, and yes they will likely try to go after individual components later down the line to try and force everybody to use cloud services.
It's possible PCs start shipping with bios settings that disable boosting by default or have shit like eco mode enabled to skirt around these regulations, much like monitors do by default with energy saving features. Ultimately shit like this just hinders people that aren't tech savvy, and until they start banning individual components it barely affects knowledgeable people.
Huh, thanks for the reply. I'm not a tech person so I have zero idea what systems they would use.
This will likely affect monitor quality by forcing designs to comply with these shitty demands.
It will also give companies MORE excuses to refuse to build high end CRT's for niche markets as it would likely be harder to make a compliant design, even though CRT's have lower display lag, better scaling, and occasionally better image quality.