Blob free capable computers are so old though. After trying one I don’t know how I survived that era without even using ssds. Before that how the hell did live with Pentium 2, 3, and 4?
Nah, modern hardware is bonkers on thermals again. A 4090 with i9-12900K is going to net you 700 watts of TDP in stock. That’s like half of what you can even pull from the wall. Even at the low end for the latest generations, you’re looking at around 200W combined TDP. And then as if that wasn’t enough, they squeeze that shit in laptops! Laptops! This is absolutely nuts.
I literally did this. My senior year in college I had a single dorm room and I’m guessing some overlocked Celeron CPUs in a dual-socket motherboard. I never once turned on the heat. I’d often come home and open my window when it was snowing outside.
Blob free capable computers are so old though. After trying one I don’t know how I survived that era without even using ssds. Before that how the hell did live with Pentium 2, 3, and 4?
Some of us had to install Windows XP SP2 and 4 on these machines. I made money just sitting in a room watching progress bars.
There was a lot less data to grind through.
Still faster than the 286 with math co-processor that I started with at home.
Pentium 4s and later the Pentium D ran so hot I could use them to heat my dorm room. Miss that.
Right? I was told a custom PC was good as a space heater. Stupid modern hardware
You can buy modern Intel i9s to replicate your experience
This is how I got through the winter.
Nah, modern hardware is bonkers on thermals again. A 4090 with i9-12900K is going to net you 700 watts of TDP in stock. That’s like half of what you can even pull from the wall. Even at the low end for the latest generations, you’re looking at around 200W combined TDP. And then as if that wasn’t enough, they squeeze that shit in laptops! Laptops! This is absolutely nuts.
I literally did this. My senior year in college I had a single dorm room and I’m guessing some overlocked Celeron CPUs in a dual-socket motherboard. I never once turned on the heat. I’d often come home and open my window when it was snowing outside.
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I’ll butcher the explanation so here’s the Wikipedia link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob
Usually its the uefi/bios where its hardest to avoid
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Why are these people so hard on BLitter OBjects? It’s not like you can use sprites for everything.