Google “California banning gaming PCs”.
Whats Diablo 5 gonna look like if you cant buy a PC to run it lol
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California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington are banning the most powerful gaming PCs
Most of us don’t live in California so we couldn’t care less.
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Alot of laws start in CA… And spread…
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Yup googled – and funny that the whole story is based of 1 reddit user saying they did not get their stuff… I call bs.
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Its not so much a state ban as it is the OEM (Dell, for example) not shipping high-consumption energy units, not unlike some cars with massive smog emissions being unavailable. There might be some regulations on this… but in that case, one would expect a federal law that limits how much power a personal electronic device can use.
And, I don’t see that happening. Considering to develop the stuff, you need the stuff.
I went to Dells website and confirmed, it states if you live in one of 5 states, Dell will not ship. That was for a AMD 5800x which is a middle road PC.
Dell’s kinda going with it.
https://www.pcgamer.com/dell-is-cancelling-alienware-gaming-pc-shipments-to-several-us-states/
Yes this is always how it goes. Every other state sits back and lets Cali take the heat for the stupid laws they make, and then in the coming years the rest of them slowly adopt them. Thanks California.
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I been saying it to my friends for years now. Stop buying store built trash, and build your own.
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Dell confirmed to The Register that the California ban was down to power consumption regulations, saying:
Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs and mobile gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted systems across Dell and Alienware.
Then why isn’t weed legal nationwide, smart guy?
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Who cares, most gamers build their own gaming PC’s. I do, and have forever.
So this is how it works. Dell is forced to not sell PCs in these states. These companies will then hire lobbyist to ban the sale of power supplies say over 600W so they are not losing sales to home PC builders… Give it a couple years, and you wont be building either.
It will be don’t worry. [quote=“Krazycalvin-1951, post:12, topic:37428, full:true”]
Then why isn’t weed legal nationwide, smart guy?
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Like in my state PA, our lame gov. spent 90% of the time during his executive shutdowns tweeting about weed, while ignoring our complete failure of an unemployment system.
You should care. California is the most populous state. When it starts setting rules, often within 10-15 years, those laws are widespread across all states. I’m certain you’re aware we have a rather polarized country. Those other 5 states are all deep blue Left. The other reliably blue controlled states will jump on board with this quickly because that’s how that political party operates.
At that point, there will be significant market pressure on manufacturers. Trying to deal with multiple difference standards in business is a royal pain. They want one standard, so usually, by this point, they capitulate and whatever California did just becomes the standard practice. This is why you go to websites and you have to click the acknowledgement about cookies and privacy because the EU mandated it a few years back, so now every country in the world has to deal with it. It’s why you’ll see a warning on nearly every product you can purchase stating that the State of California has found some trace amount of some carcinogen in the product and it may be turrible for your health.
Now, you’ll have your electronics restricted so these states can virtue signal about “climate change”. I’ll challenge literally anyone to calculate the amount of global average surface temperature reduction one can expect from banning high-powered GPU sales.
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From the article.
"More regulations are coming, too. On December 9, 2021, Tier 2 requirements will expand to “computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks, notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates.”
Apparently renewable energy just can’t keep up with demand so the bureaucrats are are coming after our PCs and high refresh rate monitors.
Isn’t it great to have to sacrifice for the state?
Meanwhile, China builds another coal fired power plant to increase their energy production.
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This is just an excuse to obliterate obesity.
Everyone will require a manual-driven rotor motor like:
https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/05/640x640/54cb2f2b45361_-_pedal-power-01-0314-de.jpg?resize=768:*
You want to make something more desired? Ban it.
Maybe for Diablo V they’ll code their game so it isn’t a resource hog for no apparent reason.
The next generation of AMD video cards have much higher power efficiency and increased performance. Nvidia is falling behind.
I like the assumption it’s just to annoy gamers as if the state hasn’t been on the receiving end of disastrous wildfires and subsequent rolling brownouts relative to capitalistic misuse and negligence of the energy infrastructure. Bitcoin server farms have also likely played their role, just as they’ve contributed to the catastrophic bloating of hardware costs.
I know “gotta overclock all the thingz and such up more powah!” is just the usual PC Master Race chest thumping, but one should also look to various regulations forcing the industry to make efficiency a higher priority, just as improving fuel efficiency for cars was a distant afterthought until regulations starting popping there.