{"id":262,"date":"2006-07-14T00:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/07\/14\/pc-power-prediction\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T09:44:21","slug":"pc-power-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/07\/14\/pc-power-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Power Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, the PC I used had required a 200W power supply.<br \/>\nIn 2005, the PC I used had required a 380W power supply.<\/p>\n<p>Making some simple assumptions about 240 VAC and exponential growth of everything related to computers, I was soon able to plot the graph and make a prediction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image263\" alt=\"Predicted PC Power Consumption Over Time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/PowerConsumptionOverTime.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By 2029, my PC power requirements (green dashed line) will hit the magic 20 Amp mark (bright blue line), and require an electrician to install with a separate power circuit and its own fuse, much like my oven.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, projecting forward a couple of other PC-related metrics, this will be only a couple of years after my entire 397.23&#8243; display is finally rendered useless by the Windows System Tray covering the whole screen with icons of services running in the background looking for updates to installed software.<\/p>\n<p>Mark my words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, the PC I used had required a 200W power supply.<br \/>\nIn 2005, the PC I used had required a 380W power supply.<\/p>\n<p>Making some simple assumptions, I was soon able to plot the graph and make a prediction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,21],"tags":[226,371,225],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-humour","category-observation","tag-computer-parts","tag-humour","tag-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}