How many peeps care about power consuption?

Personally, I don't care. But the person who pays my power bill does care

I buy what ever gives me the best price performance ratio when overclocked.
Then I underclock it for normal use.

Best of both worlds.
High power PC that is energy efficient.

OMG, you guys are so stupid! I bet Missy gonna freak when she finds this thread! Everyone edit your posts and say you do care, otherwise...

I wouldn't sacrifice performance, but if the power reduction is not at the cost of performance (or comes with an increase in performance, eg. Netburst-Core2) then I'll take what I can get.

Offtopic: I think I know who Missy is, not sure, but I have an idea.

I do, up to a point, but then I pay my bills unlike most on here.
So I don't leave my PC on all the time etc. (as you can imagine, it does consume just a bit of power! )

Considering only the $$$$ . 10 or 20 or even more watts difference will make no difference for almost everyone (especially when its a 20 watt MAX difference... not the difference at every moment in time)
It does matter for large corporations...

like others have mentioned.. the "other" relationships such as heat are more important to everyone

duh, which other insane person here drinks biofuel?

Money = ultimate motivator
Make wasting money pricey, and noone will do it. Make it cheap (like it is now.. power = very cheap) .. and everyone will. Going by your rant, we need to just kill ourselves..

What you do makes no difference anyways.. because it will lower demand of energy just by a small amount.. it will lower prices by this small amount.. and someone will go ahead and waste it

We will become more conservative when energy becomes more costly.

This is happening right now.. and that is why hydrogen-fueled cars, and other research is being done. Not because we care about some species, but because it is hurting our wallet.

I'm just saying what is true. As a person I don't want all these negative consequences to the environment. I truly don't. The more energy you save, the more likely someone else will use it for activities you deem wasteful.

If everyone were like you, we wouldn't be doing anything!
Bah, arguing with you is like trying to argue with someone about the meaning of life.. it'll go nowhere!
You're not only about avoiding wasting of energy.. you're about not using it in the first place!
Energy doesn't have feelings, we do. We use it to improve our quality of life. Based on your ideology, every advance past the stone age has been wasteful.

Actually, to a point I agree with you, its just a lil bit in each direction. Takes time to change my ways, curb my wants. One thing tho, the cold shower thing would only bring diminishing returns, and thats a no go. The rest, like I said, itll take time

Well I wish I would've paid attention to that...wouldn't have ended up wasting my time.

SO ADMITTING DEFEAT ARE WE? I don't think your queen anymore... just taken over Missy!

You should try it!

Playing compuer games?!?!? OMG! STOP WASTING ENERGY! you should be meditating instead! c'mon...

Ummm.....
Antarctica gets tons of sunlight.
It just gets it all in half a year.

Besides, current solar panels are not a really good alternative.
The current types are supposed to have one of the most toxic manufacturing processes of anything ever made.

OMG you aren't even 14 years old!

I wonder how the wooly mamouth got all the way up to siberia, and got stuck in the perma frost? Maybe it was warmer then? Using less energy is a good idead, but Im not buying this global warning crap. The wooly mamoth primarily lived in the center of the US, no wheres near that far north. Maybe back then, the caveman went crazy having just discovered fire? Then everything froze. I wonder which is more natural? The frozen permafrost or temps like middle america in siberia?

"That, my friend still would use energy, walk everywhere like me (haven't been in a car for 2 years)"

Well you have to admire that. I don't know how old you are amdfangirl but I've become reliant on my car. I should use public transport more and I might actually look into it

You know it is possible to live in a near perfect world, if we had sustainable energy for example and used effecient low powered devices then we could probably just rely on solar and wind power, maybe wave power too which is very interesting.

I don't care what you say about it, TOFU is NASTY....and TOFU ice cream sounds just sick and wrong !

My personal rant...stop calling it soy MILK because it is just soy flour and water !

Back to the original quesion....
On my list of expenses that I worry about the most, how much electricity my PC uses is about the bottom of the list.

Off topic, but when was the last time anyone saw any news on here?

Because then Intel, NVidia and AMD would get along... No competition... As pacifists we'd accept $1000 for a Celeron...

Because we have Hillary and Barrack and the highest of all AlGoRe

If these good technologies were so good, then theyd sell like free beer. Cmon, its always been this way. Communistic countries have always had to deal with capitalists because they never had enough for themselves. Before the pcb boards, what? Starvation? Thats chinas fault for allowing such things being done improperly. Dont blame someone else for their own inadequacies. You think people in China have other options? You have to ask yourself why they dont. And you have to ask why does China allow it?

I dunno. Why should I worry about the measley few cents a day it costs to run my PC, when I see things like this for instance. In southern California where there is never any inclement weather, why does everyone drive huge 4 wheel drive SUV's? I hope that everyone (which is a LOT of people) are really enjoying spending $80+ to fill up, and then run 50 miles a day back forth to work on a perfectly flat, smooth 90 degree sunny freeway.