How to Build the Most POWER EFFICIENT Gaming PC!

Save money (Under $1,000 with a 6600 XT!), save power and more importantly, help reduce waste in the process!

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[techyescity]

Thanks for the awesome feedback, looks like we will continue this as a new theme on the channel! Refreshing too to be doing something new!

[magoid]

Definitively do more of this stuff. This is helpful not only for those who pays a lot for electricity, but for us that live in hotter climates and didn't have the luxury of air-conditioning to keep our stuff from overheating.

[TerraWare]

Most people and reviewers don't usually focus on power consumption but it is quite important to many people. For me it's not really about the cost of it but mostly to do with the amount of heat im pumping into my room. I use Radeon Chill quite often actually in many games to cap the framerate on my 6800 xt and undervolt. The level of tweaking I've been able to do with this card for the past 9 months has been quite impressive.

[gloriousnait]

Saving the environment, saving us from overpriced consumer hardware. Is there anything YES MAN cannot do?

[hamoudyproductions]

More power efficiency videos. Not only it will bring better temps at almost similar performance but will also increase the lifespan of the pc components (in theory) since they use lower voltage. Less power, less ewaste, less heat. It's great

[dfxguy]

With energy prices up over 300% (where I live) since this video was released, I would really like to see more of these videos. Since just about everything is getting more expensive, your combo of undervolting and getting used parts is a really compelling way forward.

[cosminmilitaru]

Finally I have a video to send people about undervolting, instead of giving explanations every time that on Auto mobos/cpus/gpus/ram overvolt and consume more Watts uselessly because they are sold/bought separately and it's difficult to tune them in-factory to be stable outside in the world. Less power consumed pointlessly, less heat, less fan-spin, less fan noise and more fan lifespan. Only benefits. /I'm aware there are other videos out there, but this one has quality editing, short and on point.

[CaptainKenway]

I've been undervolting for years now. Aside from the power savings, the reduction in heat and noise is very nice. It can turn a bad, loud cooler into a silent one, as it did with the RX 580 Red Dragon that got me into it in the first place.

[laynewoodruff]

This is a video I've been waiting for, for quite a while. Not just from you but really anyone. Graphics Cards have become so power hungry over the years but nobody has really commented on it. Yeah the performance is good, but now it consumes an extra hundred watts? Its something I think we need to talk about more as PC gamers and be more cognizant of. I live in an area with fairly cheap power here in the US but I still like to do my part on reducing my power usage, both for my bills and to help out my fellow man/planet.

[MatthewKiehl]

Great content here. One other thing that I've seen make a huge difference is frame-caps. Capping near the monitor's refresh or exactly double. If you are going to compare with a laptop, you will need to look at monitor power consumption too. High refresh screens tend to equal more power consumption.

[justusfire]

I locked my RX6600XT at max 50W and 1300RPM, now it’s quiet and the gaming performance is still comparable.
I’ll check out your settings, since undervolting on my own seemed a bit to tideous/risky for me.

[Steve-gooq]

I have a 6600XT and it's impressed me so far. Done undervolting with previous RX cards and it helps a lots with temps in summer. The benchmarks show peak but I'm sure the figures with vsync must be even better.

[mordacain]

Great video and glad to see you covering this aspect of tuning. I undervolt everything now and I find it more fun than overclocking the last few years. Zen 2/3 you can typically run the same negative offsets, generically you can run -.05mV on the CPU and -.025mV on the SOC without losing performance (actually typically stabilizes PBO overclocks in some cases though if you want to get crazy you can get them to a super low power draw without giving up much performance. I ran my 3700X @ 1.0 mV core and it only pulled around 40-50 watts max load (which put it somewhere around 3600Mhz all core in terms of performance). I'm finding I'm not able to get as much out of Ampere compared to RDNA2 in terms of efficiency, but it still can be a great way to reduce noise and heat (particularly useful if you're in a hot environment without efficient AC).

Side note, I think if you had a 350-400 watt gold rated power supply you would have seen a bit better efficiency out of the power supply given where your system ended up after undervolting (you would have been closer to the peak of the curve).

[AGCipher]

Would love to see more places do performance per watt charts on parts like GPUs & CPUs, glad you're putting more focus on this! :)

[eugenemendoza]

Undervolt plus capping my frames reduce my overall power consumption in a country where electric bill is expensive
I capped it to 60fps since I have a 60HZ monitor also you will benefit from a smooth framepacing even on shooter games I capped it to 60 (apex).

Edit: for GPU undervolt use msi afterburner and for cpu either intel XTU or THROTTLESTOP

[keithmiller]

This is a great idea for a video. I know I suggested it the comments section of one of your recent videos. Thank You !

[Enemize]

I was looking for something like this. I want to go traveling on an RV or camper but without losing that gaming experience. Its great to see the power savings so that I don't have worry too much about the battery bank draining as fast

[JeffWaynee]

Even after all these years you find a way to up the quality of your content, mate. Love it!

[Zwalter]

Ive got to say this channel is not the flashiest like linus and jayz's channels, but this the channel what we actually need!

[LiveType]

Now this is a series I'll be looking forward to. Basically making a rig and instead of overclocking it, you tune it for max perf/W. I feel this is the ultimate test of silicon performance and am very curious as to how Intel vs AMD cpus will perform. Intel will obviously smash AMD at idle, but under load will be interesting. Also Nvidia vs AMD for gpus.

This is of course under the assumption that you get good performance out of it in the first place.