Saving Money with Linux: Gaming
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Gaming is often synonymous with guzzling electricity. We explore ways to minimise your energy footprint while still having great fun.
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Modern graphics card can be extremely power hungry and can sometimes generate incredibly high frames per second (fps) that a monitor can't display. For example, most gaming monitors offer refresh rates of at least 144 Hz. If your graphics card is producing 300 fps in a game you'll literally be wasting electricity for no gaming benefit unless you've got a gaming monitor with a very high refresh rate of say 360Hz. If not, you graphics card will be functioning mostly as an (expensive) mini heater, and potentially unnecessarily reducing its lifespan.
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