Boy, oh boy - am I happy to live in a country where my electric bill is (at least for now) my own business. When building desktop rigs "efficiency" is one of my lowest priorities - gaming in and out of itself is an inherently inefficient form of entertainment, you're just watching pretty colours on a screen that change when you press buttons, and you're chomping through hundreds of Watts while you're doing it, with the end result being amusement and nothing else. Can't wait until my new build is complete, it'd make the Californian authorities have a stroke. If all goes well, my cooling alone will consume a little under a kilowatt in order to keep the thing subambient for absolutely no practical reason whatsoever - that's the kind of waste I like.
