PC Tech Thread

If you're going to go down any rabbit hole for improvements, using task manager to identify what is running and asking why it is running and doing something about it will yield far greater improvement than tweaking the power management settings whilst all of that stuff runs.

Ah, that makes sense will look into that 👍

@ectoplasmosis just got a couple of smart plugs to measure energy use, and unrelatedly a CD drive to archive CDs, and realising that the PC uses almost the same amount of power whilst just ripping a CD, as it does whilst playing games.

I'm resigned to games being a relatively large power sink, but wondered if I could optimise general power usage for when I'm just browsing or doing other non-GPU bound tasks