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@ Dissident Sound
2025-05-24 02:28:10
computers are very fast if coded properly. for example if you run a good game like FortNite you will be shocked by how fast your computer is. but then you take the same computer to YouTube and everything bogs down and you feel like you need a new PC.
the last PC i build had 56 logical cores and 8 channels of DDR5 ram ( i am only populating 4 of them so far ). but shit software will run everything single threaded and make everything wait for some kind of response from a server that never comes ...
IMO the real difference is that fast games like FortNite are always eating the entire CPU and the entire GPU power. i have a Kill-A-Watt meter on my big PC and when i fire up FortNite ( or PUBG etc. ) the power draw goes straight to 600 watts and stays there ...
in other words the game doesn't wait. it computes nonstop. it doesn't matter what the speed of the server you're connected to it's burning the full 600 watts all the time.