Post by Thai Ladyboy on Jan 29, 2014 20:08:02 GMT -6
Yeah, with the rising electricity costs in here (there's been allegations of collusion among power providers and distributor in order to raise rates - enough to warrant Senate investigation. Really nasty stuff.) and the fact that I'm having trouble making ends meet these past few months, I decided to sell my PC (which is a gaming build) and use the money to build a cheap, power efficient one.
I picked a low-end Pentium G2020 (dual core Ivy Bridge at 2.9 ghz) and did not bother getting a videocard, relying on the built in Intel HD Graphics instead. It's not going to run any modern games, but it consumes less than 60 watts off the wall when stressing the video and both cores. It gets down to the low 20s-high 30s when idle
I thought I'd have to say goodbye to gaming with such a weak rig but it turns out this is actually a decent emulation rig as long as I don't go past 720p, which most emulated consoles don't support natively anyway. I got everything from NES to Dreamcast, Gamecube, PSP, PS2 and everything in between chugging along at fullspeed without any frameskips:
(pardon the shaky cam, though. Holding the crappy phone in one hand and the gamepad in the other)
I picked a low-end Pentium G2020 (dual core Ivy Bridge at 2.9 ghz) and did not bother getting a videocard, relying on the built in Intel HD Graphics instead. It's not going to run any modern games, but it consumes less than 60 watts off the wall when stressing the video and both cores. It gets down to the low 20s-high 30s when idle
I thought I'd have to say goodbye to gaming with such a weak rig but it turns out this is actually a decent emulation rig as long as I don't go past 720p, which most emulated consoles don't support natively anyway. I got everything from NES to Dreamcast, Gamecube, PSP, PS2 and everything in between chugging along at fullspeed without any frameskips:
(pardon the shaky cam, though. Holding the crappy phone in one hand and the gamepad in the other)