I ' ve had a relatively comfortable life and find it hard to care about seemingly important things . The biggest cause for my apathy is a combination of not feeling things will affect me , and not feeling like I can affect an outcome . <| sep |> Meanwhile , the Rhode Islanders of all history suffered delicious and comfy summers , with only the occasional shark . <| sep |> High powered gaming rig , to me , means like a 6700 K with a decent OC and a 1080 . That ' s damn near top of the line right now anyway . There are a handful of CPUs better than that for quite a pretty penny and one GPU better , but most people don ' t have anything half as powerful as that . And that right there isn ' t going to go past 400 W . Throw a second 1080 in because we want a ludicrous build that will play at 2160 when SLI works and we ' re looking at 600 W or there about . I think you are confused what ' order of magnitude ' means . 1400 W is not an order of magnitude more than 400 W . Roughly . It depends how you define order of magnitude . I like the dumb mathy version where you take the log of the number and truncate it . But my point was you ' re way the fuck off . That ' s your opinion only . I have a few friends that do PC building competitions and getting near 1 . 4 kW power draw is not a big deal to them . Those have hundreds of lighting and pumps and shit in them . Are we talking daily drivers or are we talking top fuel dragsters ? Because if you want to get ridiculous we can just skip right to super computers drawing megawatts of electricity and go ahead and say this air purifier thing doesn ' t really draw any power at all by comparison . From your post , since you were trying to relate that kind of power draw to something a normal person might have come into contact with , it read like you meant your average I want to run everything at max and never worry about anything high end build , not let ' s beg Intel for a $ 1 . 7 CPU and NV for a pair of Titan Xs and see if we can trip the breakers at CES build .