• dan@upvote.au
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    3 months ago

    28,000,000 watts

    That’s usually written as 28MW. I know some Americans don’t like metric much, but one of the points of metric is that you don’t ever need to write that many zeroes - you just need to use the right prefix (kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc) on the unit.

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      3 months ago

      True, but 28 million watts really puts things in perspective when your average PSU is less than 1000w.

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        3 months ago

        That’s true.

        average PSU is less than 1000w

        Unrelated but I wish it was easier to find lower-wattage PSUs. My local PC store doesn’t have anything under 650W. I know modern GPUs use a lot of power, but not all PCs use a GPU! I have a home server where 400W would be more than enough, yet the smallest I could find was 550W, in stock from just one manufacturer (Be Quiet).

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        3 months ago

        Exactly. This is literally a PC gamer article. Writing it out like that really puts it into perspective for the average reader.

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      3 months ago

      you just need to use the right prefix (kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc) on the unit.

      Oh, thanks.

      Bruh, it’s PC Gamer.

      quick edit: Hey! Why aren’t you converting it to Joules?