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A gaming PC uses maybe 20-30% of power of an average kitchen appliance like a kettle or a blender. Those are plugged into standard wall sockets just fine.

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Depends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt.

Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start servicing stuff like GPU fans and heat sinks.

This stuff can be designed NOT to melt the dang 12v rail

So you went up to cca 40-50% power use of a single kettle. Whoop.

Depends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt.

Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start servicing stuff like GPU fans and heat sinks.

This stuff can be designed NOT to melt the dang 6 pin 12v rail

Yeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on. I'll be impressed if a gaming PC can pull half of that during a gaming load.

Ffs don't give them ideas.

>Yeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on

...in areas that use 220/240V. In north america appliances are limited to around 1500W, because the mains voltage is 120V.

Might depend on where you are and how seriously they take tea. Our very ordinary British kettle is 3kW.

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