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<blockquote data-quote="ziphnor" data-source="post: 54249" data-attributes="member: 14215">300W of electricty costs a hell of a lot more than 300W of heat from the heating system! Can we agree that given the choice between two CPUs with the same price and performance with same mobo features available etc its stupid not to choose the one with the lowest TDP?Okay sure, of course you can also just water cool the entire thing and place a radiator on the balcony(i actually do that with my main PC <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, but why get into something like that when power efficient CPU's are available??Im sure you are right, im also expecting these DRM measures to be broken soon. The problem is that these content providers keep adding more and more layers of DRM, and we *KEEP* buying it. Sure, we might break the DRM afterwards, but that doesnt change the fact that we still buy it(unless you boycott them and go for illegal downloads in which case they will claim they need more DRM to stop piracy) so why should they stop doing it? In some cases boycotts/complaints do help. For example Ubisoft has recently dropped the use of Starforce DRM in favor of Securom(still nasty but at least only runs with the program its protecting) because of user complaints and a tendency to boycott games using starforce. It just seems to me that the content providers are still 'winning' no matter how many time their DRM is broken.Personally i prefer watermarking, if some protection has to be used.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ziphnor, post: 54249, member: 14215"] 300W of electricty costs a hell of a lot more than 300W of heat from the heating system! Can we agree that given the choice between two CPUs with the same price and performance with same mobo features available etc its stupid not to choose the one with the lowest TDP? Okay sure, of course you can also just water cool the entire thing and place a radiator on the balcony(i actually do that with my main PC :), but why get into something like that when power efficient CPU's are available?? Im sure you are right, im also expecting these DRM measures to be broken soon. The problem is that these content providers keep adding more and more layers of DRM, and we *KEEP* buying it. Sure, we might break the DRM afterwards, but that doesnt change the fact that we still buy it(unless you boycott them and go for illegal downloads in which case they will claim they need more DRM to stop piracy) so why should they stop doing it? In some cases boycotts/complaints do help. For example Ubisoft has recently dropped the use of Starforce DRM in favor of Securom(still nasty but at least only runs with the program its protecting) because of user complaints and a tendency to boycott games using starforce. It just seems to me that the content providers are still 'winning' no matter how many time their DRM is broken. Personally i prefer watermarking, if some protection has to be used. [/QUOTE]

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