Posted on 07/28/2021 11:21:47 AM PDT by rktman
Six states, led by California’s fulltime climate alarmists, this week enacted a ban on the sales of high-end gaming computers.
Niche Gamer reports that Dell is already following the 2017 law that just went into effect. According to the gamer-focused site, Dell has “pulled the sale of seven of its eight Alienware gaming desktops” from California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
Trying to order one of the banned machines will alert buyers, “This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled.”
The offending component would seem to be the power-hungry NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card, but it’s no problem to order the card separately and install it yourself. I tried ordering one from Amazon without any hassle.
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The EPA is also banning the modification of street cars into racing vehicles for emissions issues. These people are your enemy and you allow the. To step all over you. Fight back!
But, but, but..... what about all the electric cars they want people to switch to?
That’s completely different, because, shut up. Begone, heathen.
Well, toyota is trying to back off some and gm is telling folks to not park their evs in the garage. Leave them outside. Then there’s the battery disposal issue..... Yeah, this is a great idear.
Good luck actually getting an Nvidia video card in stock anywhere. This is why there has been a boom in prebuilt systems.
be careful. A lot of current desktops have no extra power cords coming off the power source on the motherboard. My current Dell is like this. Bought a vid card and discovered there was nothing to plug into it.
Yawn!
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My son uses his high end gaming rig with “NiceHash” to mine crypto-currency while he’s offline. I charge him $50/month because that appears to be how much extra juice he’s using. He’s been earning about $200-225/month though.
They make splitter cables?
those systems can also be used for mining cryptocurrency
They will be sold out of the trunks of cars..........
You mean Californias Electrical buses they’ve shuddered because they’ve caught on fire (ala Chevy Bolt style)?
Real gamers build their own. Switch to AMD cards.
I would buy them, have them shipped to me…and then ship them to those residents for a premium.
I am not sure how their warranties would work….
But you can order one from an eBay seller located in California, and he will ship it to you immediately.
What’s to stop people from ordering the computers shipped to another state then shipped in?................
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