Yes, I figured that much would be obvious to this crowd. Thus the "pseudo" part.

The point isn't that there isn't a benefit, it's that you start to pay exponentially more energy per 0.1GHz at a certain point. Furthermore, AMD and Intel were exceptionally aggressive about it in the generations I outlined (AMD would be 7000 series ryzens specifically), leading to instability issues on both platforms due to their spec itself being too aggressive, or AIB partners improperly implementing that spec as the headroom that typically exists from factory stock to push clocks/voltages further was no longer there in some silicon (some of it comes down to silicon lottery and manufacturing defects/mistakes (Intel's oxidation issues for example) but we're really getting into the weeds on this already)

And to clarify: I'm talking specifically of Intel turboboost and AMD's PBO boosting technologies where they boost where they boost well over base clocks, separate from the general dynamic clocking behavior where clocks will drop well below base when not in (heavy) use.

What makes you think that?

They're small and efficient, that means they can pack large numbers of those into small spaces, resulting in a similar large power draw per volume occupied by equipment in the DC. This is especially true with Apple's "Ultrafusion" tech which they're developing as quasi-analog to Nvidia Grace (Hopper) superchips.

at that point, they're powered by a bicycle.

Far safer than overvolting.

Changing settings can lead to stability issues no matter which way you push it frankly. If you're don't know what you're doing/aren't comfortable with it, probably not worth it.

> You can always have an electrician install ...

If you own the house, sure. Many people don't.

You need to increase the wire diameter as well if you go that route. Running larger breakers on 10A or 15A wiring is a recipe for bad stuff.

In older houses, made from brick and concrete, that can be tricky to do. The only reason I can have my computer on a separate circuit is because we could repurpose the old three phase wiring for a sauna we ripped out. If that had not been the case, getting the wires to the fuse board would have been tricky at best.

New homes are probably worse than old homes through. The wires a just chucked in the space been the outer and inner walls, there's basically no chance of replacing them of pulling new ones. Old houses at least frequently have piping in which the wires run.

Larger breaker and thicker wires!

Without upgrsding the wiring to a thicker gauge? That's not code compliant and is likely to cause a fire.

As an old house owner, I can attest to that for sure. In fairness though, I suspect most of the atrocities occur in wall and work boxes, as long as your house is new enough to at least have NM sheathed wiring instead of ancient weird stuff like knob and tube. That's still bad but it's a solvable problem.

I've definitely seen my share of scary things. I have a lighting circuit that is incomprehensibly wired and seems to kill LED bulbs randomly during a power outage; I have zero clue what is going on with that one. Also, often times opening up wall boxes I will see backstabs that were not properly inserted or wire nuts that are just covering hand-twisted wires and not actually threaded at all (and not even the right size in some cases...) Needless to say, I should really get an electrician in here, but at least with a thermal camera you can look for signs of serious problems.

Yeah, but it ain't nothing that microwaves, space heaters, and hair dryers haven't already given a run for their money.

> Probably open Slack and Teams at the same time.

Too bad it feels like both might as well be single threaded applications somehow

All American households get mains power at 240v (I'm missing some nuance here about poles and phases, so the electrical people can correct my terminology).

It's often used for things like ACs, Clothes Dryers, Stoves, EV Chargers.

So it's pretty simple for a certified electrician to just make a 240v outlet if needed. It's just not the default that comes out of a wall.

Consumers with desktop computers are not winning any AI race anywhere.

In residential power delivery? yes

In power cost? no

I'm literally any other way? also no

In Italy we also have 10A and 16A (single phase). In practice however almost all wires running in the walls are 2.5 mm^2, so that you can use them for either one 16A plug or two adjacent 10A plugs.

In the Nordics (I'm assuming you mean Nordic countries) 10A is _not_ standard. Used to be, some forty years ago. Since then 16A is standard. My house has a few 10A leftovers from when the house was built, and after the change to TN which happened a couple of decades ago, and with new "modern" breakers, a single microwave oven on a 10A circuit is enough to trip the breaker (when the microwave pulses). Had to get the breakers changed to slow ones, but even those can get tripped by a microwave oven if there's something else (say, a kettle) on the same circuit.

16A is fine, for most things. 10A used to be kind of ok, with the old IT net and old-style fuses. Nowadays anything under 16A is useless for actual appliances. For the rest it's either 25A and a different plug, or 400V.

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Ah, 16A at 230v (3680W) is a normal circuit here. Most appliances work with that, the common exception is electric cooking (using two circuits or 380v two-phase) and EV charging.

True but kettles rarely run for very long.