Make sure to join me this Friday (February 11th) right here on my TH-cam for my birthday live stream! I'll be playing some horror games in my van and it's gonna be a great time so don't miss it! I'd love to have you all there!
Hey Man I don’t know if your going to see this, but me and my mom have always watched your videos for the past couple of months and 2 days ago she passed away in her sleep, and it feels so weird not watching this with her, she always said you remind her of Jason Momoa! I never thought I would loose her at the age of 14 it was so Unexpected, Keep up the videos man and don’t forget we are here to watch you no matter what you post just do what your heart tells you to do!
I’m never getting married. Have something like that all to myself, not have to worrying about anyone is just amazing. No paying childcare, just living and traveling. What a life
@@evepoole3966Exactly. It’s ironic how many people miss the truly important things in life while lusting over channels like this. Also having kids sounds like the end of the world until you actually experience bringing one into the world. I know how annoying that sounds when you’re at a certain stage in life but it’s just plain true lol
The speakers and keyboard LED also draw a significant amount. His laptop wasn't using anywhere near 230W power in that setup, and it was likely less than half of this desktop under full load, but he's making van life videos for the internet so everything has to sound way better than reality.
@@JudeTheTH-camPoopersubscribe Same i have an asus rog strix 1440p 240hz monitor and on load it only uses 45-50watts, definitely surprised me that it was that low lol
Thank you for making this video. This information was the last thing I needed to make the decision to go van life. Also a joy to watch someone as dorky as I am. So glad I found your channel, its perfect.
Really appreciate you making this video! I’ve been waiting for it ever since you uploaded the build video. It’s impressive how it’s not drawing all that much more power for such a beefy rig.
As a fellow off grid gamer, I could never beat the power usage of a laptop so I went with a G14 Zephyrus with a 3060 and a Ryzen 5900HS. With turbo boost disabled I pull 165 watts (that is measured at the battery bank via a shunt.) You will want to measure consumption that includes the lossy process of the inverter, which I don't think the power monitor you're using can do, that is the final power output. Most likely an additional 30-40 watts is being used to create that power. Enjoy! Beautiful setup!
So, im not alone here. nice. Thats pretty great... thanks for including all of that info. That is pretty low power use @65w. You could save on the power loss by not going through AC power. I have an older HP Pavilion Gaming with a i5 9300h and RTX 1050 3gb. Its time for an upgrade.. but I got a dc barrel jack to USB C adapter so I can plug it right into my ecoflow's USB C port to charge. It normally has a 130w charger, so it is a bit slower, but it keeps up. I'm hoping to be able to do that with whichever new one I get. I really like that G14 Zephrus. Im going to have to get the $1000 ish one with the slower CPU, but I want at least a 3060.
@@BLASTIC0 apologies, it wouldn't let me edit but my usage while gaming with a 3060 is 165 watts of usage. There is not yet an over the counter 12v option for this laptop but it could be built if you had the bench and buck converter of choice to hit the target voltage. I have 400ah of lithium and the inverter loss is sustainable, we replenish with 1200 watts of roof top solar pretty quickly. Happy gaming!
Small form factor pc definitely seems like the way to go. I could be completely off base here, but gaming laptops (while awesome) seem to be much louder due to having smaller & whinier fans in them. I have to imagine where you record inside your van frequently it must be nice to have your PC running with minimal background noise. Was that something you had to think about?
I found your Channel about a week ago, and I fell in love with your content immediately man. I went back to the beginning and watched every upload. You are great at what you do I must say. So happy I found you
Thanks man! Just wait though! I've got some really great and informative videos on the way. They're actually already edited and uploaded, I'm just waiting on a few things to line up before I post them.
First off, congrats on making it happen. See you're dippin' into SFF territory here but still using conventional parts, I thought I bring up an option where you can basically use a MAXIMUM of 140w within a build that's below 4 instead of 18L without loosing too much performance. You can get an Intel 12400T (a 35w version of the best gaming cpu right now, mosty used in laptops, but even a regular 12400F is fine) on an ITX motherboard, with an RTX A2000 gpu that's performance is somewher at the 3060 level, but only consumes 70w at MAX. Which is crazy efficient. Slap in a HDPLEX passive 250w GaN power supply that's fanless and you have a powerful system that's easy to cool, barely consumes anything and have the size of like two books on top of each other. Depending on the case, but there are Densium 4, Velka 3, Skyreach 4 Tiny for example that are all 4L or below and are perfectly fine to house these components.
This is going to be my new favorite channel. It's literally what I do. Live in a camper and have been a PC gamer since 2002. Glad I found this channel and I now have another awesome (and personable) TH-camr to add to my daily watch routine. Thanks a ton! So happy to subscribe. When my GF gets home from work I am gonna have her sub too. This channel is just so damn cool
I made a small gaming solar setup with an Xbox one S because it draws 50 watts of the wall max. My gaming monitor uses even less. My solar setup includes a 100 watt solar pannel with a 20ah lifep04 battery and a mppt solar charger. Works great.
I'm in the process of building out my van for like a little micro camper. I got a gpd win max 2 with the G1 eGPU (mouthful I know) to replace my micro ATX build. Performance is projected to be the same, and I'm excited to see how much lower the power draw is. Hoping my 300ah battery gives me a lot of time
I’m sure you have plenty power to game pretty much round the clock, but I also wonder how much power time you have if you include your wifi and any other necessary powered components on as well - then maybe also include always powered items like your refrigerator etc to find a closer to exact number of total time you can game in the dark.
6600xt is unbelievably power efficient, i was very surprised when i first used it, at 100w or so it it basically performs how a 1080ti /2080 does at 250+, its pretty amazing. compared to 3060ti it is about 2x the perf to power
Quick scan of the comments didn't show anybody pointing out that those Kill-A-Watt devices only show AC draw and not DC draw, which will 100% be higher due to voltage differences. I forget how to calculate it, and obviously power is a very complicated subject, but for anybody reading this, please know it's not a 1-1 comparison, and the run time will be less than he estimated, maybe by a lot. Edit: then of course there's inverter loss, wiring loss, etc...
I’ve been waiting for this one! I have a 3090 and 5800x and I was wanting to know how much I can downsize when I move my rig into my build. Probably will keep the CPU and step down to a 3070 as well.
@@ghostofdream honestly it’s a bit of a liability to have a $3k card on the road so I’ll probably downsize for the peace of mind but it would be insane to bring my no compromise rig into the build.
@@ghostofdream is correct. Regardless, look into undervolting gpu and CPU. Minimal frame loss and some people even get slightly more frames while using less power!
Love your setup bro, but I hope you know that just your 3070 alone is capable of hitting roughly the same wattage as your entire laptop did, not factoring the CPU and whatever else is plugged in. Keep in mind you can also set power/clock limits for both your CPU and GPU
Yeah, he wasn't stress testing his PC or anything. I would imagine he normally has it idling or plays a game that's not too demanding with the graphics not cranked all the way. I think he works editing for movies, and obviously he edits his videos. It's possible those activities could pull more watts, but with his setup and style I don't think knowing precisely how much power it pulls in every situation is important. He does seem to know a little bit about gaming pcs, but I think the micro center guy mainly built it. I wouldn't consider his NR200 case go be small for an ITX anyway. My wife runs a Velka 3 in a 3.9 liter case (I built the PC for her). It's got an 3700x CPU and a 1060 TI GPU. I've also got an mATX mobo in a computer case smaller than his NR200 17.9 vs 18 liters.
Slight math error, ac and dc are different, 250watts at 120v is 2.083 amps(ac) covert it to dc 23 amps at 12v = 275watts so 13.5 hrs which is not much but when you run a 1000watt pc on ac it’s it’s 1104 an extra 104w of the battery
Did you mention the watts used by your monitor? Im looking to do a similar setup this year. Also, could I consult you for a few hours for about $100/h?
Can we get a Q&A please? I have SO many questions about your experiences in Van life, like how do you go about ordering online? Where do you get it delivered too? Just a suggestion, love these videos!
I'd love to be there bro! My wife and I are going to NYC to celebrate Valentines day but I'll probably open up youtube and let it play in the background man. Hope you have a good birthday bro!
In case you ever want to lower the power consumption a bit for better efficiency or temps: undervolting is pretty easy and can save you a lot of power, without costing you performance.
yeah there's got to be a way to set up your own DC to DC and skip past the computer's Power supply. The inverter kills efficiency by 20% so that's a pretty big deal. I'm not sciency enough to do it though lol
@@christopherrowley7506 Yeah me neither haha. I learned about the basics of switching power supplies so I have a vague idea. If some electric engineer would design a PCB that you can order from a PCB service I'd give it a shot and soldering it myself though. There are ATX power supplies that take 36-72v DC input but they are expensive, like 200€ to 300€. Only explanation I have why it would be so expensive is that it's a tiny market. There are also ~48V to 12V power supplies so you could then use the cheaper 12V DC atx power supplies.
That’s a really good amount of power from the solar panels. Really good. It’s amazing how much power is generated by the sun itself. Awesome video dude and looking forward to see you Friday man on your birthday day 🤘🤘 my brother is going to be this Thursdays the 10th. All the best buddy 🤘👍
Computers run off 12vdc, maybe you can just wire that 12vdc straight into the computer, power supplies range in wattage off the shelf. So maybe you can limit the wattage to like 700watts like a typical gaming psu. And you could probably even find a monitor that runs off 12vdc as well saving you some more energy instead of going through the inverter process. That would be really efficient.
You would never want to do that with solar in the electrical loop. The wave form of solar is dirty. The power supply of the gaming computer would not last as long as it should and might damage your computer when if fails prematurely. Even neighborhoods with solar have this problem. Normally the grid cleans the waveform, but it too expensive to do in every localized neighborhood.
Undervolting would decrese the wattage even further. With undervolting a GPU there is arguably no performance drop (it's very minimal) and can decrease the power consumption by as much as 10% (on the GPU). With undervolting a CPU once again there isn't really any performance drop but it wouldn't yield as much of a result, still noticeable but less so.
Well a 12 Kilowatts of battery reserve and a 3 Kilowatts solar panel with an inverter for the pc only with proper maintenance it works fine. 12 Kilowatt x 0.9 ( For LiFePo4 discharge ) x 0.8 Inverter Efficiency divided by Appliance max wattage (400 Watts for Gaming PC). 400 watts gaming pc works for 21.6 hours. Nothing to worry about blackouts especially on Typhoon Affected areas. It takes millions of years before the sun will e extinguished rather than an efficient generator uses fossil fuel.
Its time to change those full size keyboard to something smaller like TKL or 75% keyboard..the free area on your mousepad would be much better for your gaming
Try undervolting both the cpu and gpu to consume less power for the same performance and less temperatures. And limiting fos will also consume less power.
Playing your video and letting your voice full time while i fall sleep is my daily routine. 😀😀(and also sometimes i watch science blackhole universe) ✌️
I'm just curious, did you test any other games and see the power usage there? Some games will probably pull over 300w so gotta keep an eye on that! Either way it'll last awhile and 250w sounds right for an average. Keep up the great vids!
I always wanted to know this. I think you talked about it in a video when you got the new Van but I will watch this. Solar is very good and I wouldn’t be able to survive without my pc. Yours is still better than mine lol
Try msi afterburner to test out different power limit/voltages if you want to really dial in your efficiency. Same on the bios, you can tweak your CPU voltage and clock speeds. It's the silicon lottery but sometimes you get lucky :)
But you gotta consider every other electric devices runing though. Cor example, the monitor I see you only measured your pc. Ans lights. Mini fridge. etc
Yes, this is informative! I’m gonna go check how many watts my pc uses. Do have a part list for your solar panels and battery bank setup in the other video?
Hahahaah i knew it was a joke but my heartbroke when u dropped the pc in the build video, man! Hahahaha Great video, we hope u r well and have a good life bro
I’m the same as you, and love gaming off the grid. I was using an Xbox One S, as the max power wattage was 54w, and I had a 1080p monitor from Lenovo that was 18w. Series S is even more so power efficient at peak efficient at 48w, so was around 66w max for gaming. I know it’s cool to have huge power, but Xbox is a good solution for power with less amp hours 😊
the series s is about 70-80w in a demanding game like cyberpunk. in older xbox one games like witcher 3 where it was not pushing the xbox at all it was only using about 60w.
I bet the steam deck will be revolutionary being under 30w at all time, using the gpd win 3 current its fantastic playing csgo l4d wow and lol on my 1440 monitor
so there are a couple notes for people that want even more efficiency* 5950x i believe i still the elephant in the room, when you can get a 5800x that is just as good for gaming, for even less power wattage (excluding undervolting), so for watt-efficiency to gaming performance, the 5800x is still the winner, but you know grats on the 5950x it's great for other things :) like mining a 3070 is a good choice for being a high performance video card, but it's actually one of the weaker ones with wattage to performance, if you want the true top dog, it's probably the 3060, mine can run hunt showdown (more or less the same intensity as halo, probably even worse cause optimizations for AAA) @ 110 watts from the wall (with undervolting) and it still gets 100+ fps so you could probably shear off a good 15-20% with proper undervolting, but if you were just looking for pure watt efficiency, a 5800x would be king (you could go lower if you're willing to sacrifice performance) everything else about the build looks great though, i love the aesthetic rgb, a 3070 is a fantastic card regardless, psu is sized properly (resting around 50% utilization under full load) great work :)
cool , was thinking go off the grid , my complite rig , pfsence , file server editing rig , audio amp , comsume 500-600 wat at 220v , so is in theory posible ,
Thank you for you advice in you video. And yes I'm going to see you video on Friday .I love you videos I play also . Have fun and stay safe.and thanks again for you videos.
Awesome video! Love the set up! Are you at all worried about taking your van off road now that you have a gaming pc? Even with the vertically mounted GPU I would still be really scared about that.
Gotta love how we live in s time where almost every technology hardware is power efficient and not a premium option. S lot of things can be powered with just batteries.
I get sleep paralysis all the time. This one time it happened to me. I woke up like everything when it happens to me, I new it was about to happen. Next thing you know boom it happens but this time. When I closed my eyes. I saw a glowing outline of the devil sitting on the throw almost like the beings you see on DMT. The next morning my niece woke up and told us that she woke up in the middle of the night and saw two glowing eyes at he bedroom door.
Make sure to join me this Friday (February 11th) right here on my TH-cam for my birthday live stream! I'll be playing some horror games in my van and it's gonna be a great time so don't miss it! I'd love to have you all there!
Love your vids
He pinned it . XD
Gonna play some of that new Dying light 2? I'm having a blast with it so far.
Wait when’s the bday? Mine is the 19th!
Love the content man.
Hey Man I don’t know if your going to see this, but me and my mom have always watched your videos for the past couple of months and 2 days ago she passed away in her sleep, and it feels so weird not watching this with her, she always said you remind her of Jason Momoa!
I never thought I would loose her at the age of 14 it was so Unexpected, Keep up the videos man and don’t forget we are here to watch you no matter what you post just do what your heart tells you to do!
Hey bud hope you're doing okay
I’m never getting married. Have something like that all to myself, not have to worrying about anyone is just amazing. No paying childcare, just living and traveling. What a life
Why not do this but with a partner?? Condoms are a thing my dude or a vasectomy but giving up love 😂 crazy
@@evepoole3966Exactly. It’s ironic how many people miss the truly important things in life while lusting over channels like this. Also having kids sounds like the end of the world until you actually experience bringing one into the world. I know how annoying that sounds when you’re at a certain stage in life but it’s just plain true lol
@@greatslambinoright
How do you sort sex?
@@evepoole3966not getting married isn’t about giving up on love, quite the opposite actually, it’s about loving yourself.
Cool stuff. Undervolting the RTX 3070 can probably save another ~50W if I had to guess. There are good videos on how to do it on YT.
Yeah , that would be the way I would go ;) undervolt it dude :)
genius idea dude
The king of undervolting is the Radeon 6600 XT though.
Undervolting both and you could probably end up close to 200W total on peak.
The Ryzen 9 5950X can be undervolted too, just like intel processors.
don't forget the power that the monitor is drawing. The laptop included the screen power
The speakers and keyboard LED also draw a significant amount. His laptop wasn't using anywhere near 230W power in that setup, and it was likely less than half of this desktop under full load, but he's making van life videos for the internet so everything has to sound way better than reality.
to be fair most modern monitors are really power efficent. mine draws about 45w at full brightness and its a pretty high end one. 1440p 165hz.
@@JudeTheTH-camPoopersubscribe Same i have an asus rog strix 1440p 240hz monitor and on load it only uses 45-50watts, definitely surprised me that it was that low lol
well an normal 1080p gaming monitor uses 16w(my 2018 asus 100$ monitor with real 75hz)
and an normal stupid 1080p tv uses 50+w
Thank you for making this video. This information was the last thing I needed to make the decision to go van life. Also a joy to watch someone as dorky as I am. So glad I found your channel, its perfect.
Really appreciate you making this video! I’ve been waiting for it ever since you uploaded the build video. It’s impressive how it’s not drawing all that much more power for such a beefy rig.
As a fellow off grid gamer, I could never beat the power usage of a laptop so I went with a G14 Zephyrus with a 3060 and a Ryzen 5900HS. With turbo boost disabled I pull 165 watts (that is measured at the battery bank via a shunt.) You will want to measure consumption that includes the lossy process of the inverter, which I don't think the power monitor you're using can do, that is the final power output. Most likely an additional 30-40 watts is being used to create that power. Enjoy! Beautiful setup!
So, im not alone here. nice.
Thats pretty great... thanks for including all of that info. That is pretty low power use @65w. You could save on the power loss by not going through AC power. I have an older HP Pavilion Gaming with a i5 9300h and RTX 1050 3gb. Its time for an upgrade.. but I got a dc barrel jack to USB C adapter so I can plug it right into my ecoflow's USB C port to charge. It normally has a 130w charger, so it is a bit slower, but it keeps up. I'm hoping to be able to do that with whichever new one I get. I really like that G14 Zephrus. Im going to have to get the $1000 ish one with the slower CPU, but I want at least a 3060.
@@BLASTIC0 apologies, it wouldn't let me edit but my usage while gaming with a 3060 is 165 watts of usage. There is not yet an over the counter 12v option for this laptop but it could be built if you had the bench and buck converter of choice to hit the target voltage. I have 400ah of lithium and the inverter loss is sustainable, we replenish with 1200 watts of roof top solar pretty quickly. Happy gaming!
this energy flowing out of you is such amazing reason to watch you
Small form factor pc definitely seems like the way to go. I could be completely off base here, but gaming laptops (while awesome) seem to be much louder due to having smaller & whinier fans in them. I have to imagine where you record inside your van frequently it must be nice to have your PC running with minimal background noise. Was that something you had to think about?
I found your Channel about a week ago, and I fell in love with your content immediately man. I went back to the beginning and watched every upload. You are great at what you do I must say. So happy I found you
Awesome stuff as always, so cool to see the breakdown of how this lifestyle works!
Thanks man! Just wait though! I've got some really great and informative videos on the way. They're actually already edited and uploaded, I'm just waiting on a few things to line up before I post them.
@@TrentTheTraveler man, you forgot your monitor, which your laptop has built in :D
@@TrentTheTraveler by the way rgb for wattage :D
im really glad i found this channel. im gonna do vanlife, but wasnt wiling to give up the vidya. love this channel
First off, congrats on making it happen. See you're dippin' into SFF territory here but still using conventional parts, I thought I bring up an option where you can basically use a MAXIMUM of 140w within a build that's below 4 instead of 18L without loosing too much performance.
You can get an Intel 12400T (a 35w version of the best gaming cpu right now, mosty used in laptops, but even a regular 12400F is fine) on an ITX motherboard, with an RTX A2000 gpu that's performance is somewher at the 3060 level, but only consumes 70w at MAX. Which is crazy efficient. Slap in a HDPLEX passive 250w GaN power supply that's fanless and you have a powerful system that's easy to cool, barely consumes anything and have the size of like two books on top of each other. Depending on the case, but there are Densium 4, Velka 3, Skyreach 4 Tiny for example that are all 4L or below and are perfectly fine to house these components.
Just found your channel off of instagram last night. You just happen to post today! Gotta say so far I'm a big fan so far of your content!
This is going to be my new favorite channel. It's literally what I do. Live in a camper and have been a PC gamer since 2002. Glad I found this channel and I now have another awesome (and personable) TH-camr to add to my daily watch routine. Thanks a ton! So happy to subscribe. When my GF gets home from work I am gonna have her sub too. This channel is just so damn cool
The city i live in is suffering constant blackouts and watching this just makes me want to live off grid entirely.
I made a small gaming solar setup with an Xbox one S because it draws 50 watts of the wall max. My gaming monitor uses even less.
My solar setup includes a 100 watt solar pannel with a 20ah lifep04 battery and a mppt solar charger. Works great.
I'm in the process of building out my van for like a little micro camper. I got a gpd win max 2 with the G1 eGPU (mouthful I know) to replace my micro ATX build. Performance is projected to be the same, and I'm excited to see how much lower the power draw is. Hoping my 300ah battery gives me a lot of time
Informative and hairy, great combo 😂 got my gaming pc coming this year, your content has helped a lot! big love!
This is the best compliment haha! Glad my videos have been helping you man!
I’m sure you have plenty power to game pretty much round the clock, but I also wonder how much power time you have if you include your wifi and any other necessary powered components on as well - then maybe also include always powered items like your refrigerator etc to find a closer to exact number of total time you can game in the dark.
his monitor is another 100w or so
6600xt is unbelievably power efficient, i was very surprised when i first used it, at 100w or so it it basically performs how a 1080ti /2080 does at 250+, its pretty amazing. compared to 3060ti it is about 2x the perf to power
and then i turn on DLSS and now the framerate is doubled and the wattage is way down too.
@@BomimoDK and then i turn on fsr :x
@@RonnieMcNutt666 Aaaand it's a messy blur.
@@RonnieMcNutt666 It's literally just a smear upscale filter.
and costs half the money
Bro this is such an awesome video. I'm gonna live in a van.
Quick scan of the comments didn't show anybody pointing out that those Kill-A-Watt devices only show AC draw and not DC draw, which will 100% be higher due to voltage differences. I forget how to calculate it, and obviously power is a very complicated subject, but for anybody reading this, please know it's not a 1-1 comparison, and the run time will be less than he estimated, maybe by a lot.
Edit: then of course there's inverter loss, wiring loss, etc...
I freaking love the wood finish on your van walls, I want to lie in a van just like yours!
I’ve been waiting for this one! I have a 3090 and 5800x and I was wanting to know how much I can downsize when I move my rig into my build. Probably will keep the CPU and step down to a 3070 as well.
youll be fine with a 3090 in that case
@@ghostofdream honestly it’s a bit of a liability to have a $3k card on the road so I’ll probably downsize for the peace of mind but it would be insane to bring my no compromise rig into the build.
@@ghostofdream is correct. Regardless, look into undervolting gpu and CPU. Minimal frame loss and some people even get slightly more frames while using less power!
Love your setup bro, but I hope you know that just your 3070 alone is capable of hitting roughly the same wattage as your entire laptop did, not factoring the CPU and whatever else is plugged in. Keep in mind you can also set power/clock limits for both your CPU and GPU
Yeah, he wasn't stress testing his PC or anything. I would imagine he normally has it idling or plays a game that's not too demanding with the graphics not cranked all the way.
I think he works editing for movies, and obviously he edits his videos. It's possible those activities could pull more watts, but with his setup and style I don't think knowing precisely how much power it pulls in every situation is important.
He does seem to know a little bit about gaming pcs, but I think the micro center guy mainly built it. I wouldn't consider his NR200 case go be small for an ITX anyway. My wife runs a Velka 3 in a 3.9 liter case (I built the PC for her). It's got an 3700x CPU and a 1060 TI GPU.
I've also got an mATX mobo in a computer case smaller than his NR200 17.9 vs 18 liters.
Slight math error, ac and dc are different, 250watts at 120v is 2.083 amps(ac) covert it to dc 23 amps at 12v = 275watts so 13.5 hrs which is not much but when you run a 1000watt pc on ac it’s it’s 1104 an extra 104w of the battery
I've wanted this exact video for so long. Future Van gamer here.
16 right now and holy vanlife looks awesome u got a sub keep it up man!
Ok, im not the only one trying to figure this out! WOW. Awesome!
Did you mention the watts used by your monitor? Im looking to do a similar setup this year. Also, could I consult you for a few hours for about $100/h?
You want one that has an external power adapter, that way you can bypass it and run DC straight to the monitor. They don't draw much
@@EliteSniperTV When you play, i would say at least 60W on a gaming monitor.
@@ibobeko4309 I forget the power draw, I think that's close though
my 27 inch 1440p 165hz monitor pulls 54w at max brightness. if i turn it down to 200 nits (maybe 60% brightness) then its only 25w.
Can we get a Q&A please? I have SO many questions about your experiences in Van life, like how do you go about ordering online? Where do you get it delivered too? Just a suggestion, love these videos!
Awesome setup. Big inspiration! Thank you for the solid content. Happy belated birthday!
I'd love to be there bro! My wife and I are going to NYC to celebrate Valentines day but I'll probably open up youtube and let it play in the background man. Hope you have a good birthday bro!
Yo dude your channel is great. I just bought my first bus and looking for ideas and answers, I appreciate you contributing. Keep it up fam
In case you ever want to lower the power consumption a bit for better efficiency or temps: undervolting is pretty easy and can save you a lot of power, without costing you performance.
What is undervolting ??
@@blizzred2143just google it please
Thank you for existing :)
Awesome! I'd love to do this with a 48V DC to 12V DC converter and without an inverter in a 30' camper.
yeah there's got to be a way to set up your own DC to DC and skip past the computer's Power supply. The inverter kills efficiency by 20% so that's a pretty big deal. I'm not sciency enough to do it though lol
@@christopherrowley7506 Yeah me neither haha. I learned about the basics of switching power supplies so I have a vague idea.
If some electric engineer would design a PCB that you can order from a PCB service I'd give it a shot and soldering it myself though.
There are ATX power supplies that take 36-72v DC input but they are expensive, like 200€ to 300€.
Only explanation I have why it would be so expensive is that it's a tiny market.
There are also ~48V to 12V power supplies so you could then use the cheaper 12V DC atx power supplies.
That’s a really good amount of power from the solar panels. Really good. It’s amazing how much power is generated by the sun itself. Awesome video dude and looking forward to see you Friday man on your birthday day 🤘🤘 my brother is going to be this Thursdays the 10th. All the best buddy 🤘👍
Computers run off 12vdc, maybe you can just wire that 12vdc straight into the computer, power supplies range in wattage off the shelf. So maybe you can limit the wattage to like 700watts like a typical gaming psu. And you could probably even find a monitor that runs off 12vdc as well saving you some more energy instead of going through the inverter process. That would be really efficient.
You would never want to do that with solar in the electrical loop. The wave form of solar is dirty. The power supply of the gaming computer would not last as long as it should and might damage your computer when if fails prematurely. Even neighborhoods with solar have this problem. Normally the grid cleans the waveform, but it too expensive to do in every localized neighborhood.
Dude, that’s super inspiring!!!
Undervolting would decrese the wattage even further.
With undervolting a GPU there is arguably no performance drop (it's very minimal) and can decrease the power consumption by as much as 10% (on the GPU).
With undervolting a CPU once again there isn't really any performance drop but it wouldn't yield as much of a result, still noticeable but less so.
Thank you for this video! I'm thinking about this lifestyle and this was vary informative :)
Well a 12 Kilowatts of battery reserve and a 3 Kilowatts solar panel with an inverter for the pc only with proper maintenance it works fine.
12 Kilowatt x 0.9 ( For LiFePo4 discharge ) x 0.8 Inverter Efficiency divided by Appliance max wattage (400 Watts for Gaming PC).
400 watts gaming pc works for 21.6 hours. Nothing to worry about blackouts especially on Typhoon Affected areas. It takes millions of years before the sun will e extinguished rather than an efficient generator uses fossil fuel.
its sad how my 3080 pulls more than that alone, but damn thats cool to have in a van! good shit man
That's awesome!! thank you for this video.
Sorry I missed out hope you had an awesome bday!
Its time to change those full size keyboard to something smaller like TKL or 75% keyboard..the free area on your mousepad would be much better for your gaming
Try undervolting both the cpu and gpu to consume less power for the same performance and less temperatures. And limiting fos will also consume less power.
Hey what is FOS?
Thank you dear friend and today's my b day too happy early birthday
oooh I see you picked up an office chair. That's one thing I was unsure about with your build (which is the best overall I've seen to date)
Playing your video and letting your voice full time while i fall sleep is my daily routine. 😀😀(and also sometimes i watch science blackhole universe)
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I'm just curious, did you test any other games and see the power usage there? Some games will probably pull over 300w so gotta keep an eye on that! Either way it'll last awhile and 250w sounds right for an average. Keep up the great vids!
I was wondering the same thing. I bet if he stress texted his gpu and cpu it might get close to 400 watts
bro i really love the aestheticness of your van
On a snow day, I suggest you play an old school gaming system or handheld. Ps2 slim can go 7-48 watts.
Loving it, bout to do this to a camper, but my own style of course
I always wanted to know this. I think you talked about it in a video when you got the new Van but I will watch this. Solar is very good and I wouldn’t be able to survive without my pc. Yours is still better than mine lol
I use the Intel Hades Canyon in my Caravan. Good for Dayz etc.
I just found you from stephi. You're awesome
Try msi afterburner to test out different power limit/voltages if you want to really dial in your efficiency. Same on the bios, you can tweak your CPU voltage and clock speeds. It's the silicon lottery but sometimes you get lucky :)
But you gotta consider every other electric devices runing though. Cor example, the monitor I see you only measured your pc. Ans lights. Mini fridge. etc
I'll be here Friday. My birthday was Sunday February 6th.
Yes, this is informative! I’m gonna go check how many watts my pc uses. Do have a part list for your solar panels and battery bank setup in the other video?
Your camper is better than my home🤣💖
I was one of the sceptics. But wow, congrats on the sick setup
Hahahaah i knew it was a joke but my heartbroke when u dropped the pc in the build video, man! Hahahaha
Great video, we hope u r well and have a good life bro
Absolutely love your channel!!!
250W, how much is the screen and the other peripherals attached to the PC? nice vid anyway keep it you :)
I’m the same as you, and love gaming off the grid. I was using an Xbox One S, as the max power wattage was 54w, and I had a 1080p monitor from Lenovo that was 18w. Series S is even more so power efficient at peak efficient at 48w, so was around 66w max for gaming. I know it’s cool to have huge power, but Xbox is a good solution for power with less amp hours 😊
the series s is about 70-80w in a demanding game like cyberpunk. in older xbox one games like witcher 3 where it was not pushing the xbox at all it was only using about 60w.
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I bet the steam deck will be revolutionary being under 30w at all time, using the gpd win 3 current its fantastic playing csgo l4d wow and lol on my 1440 monitor
so there are a couple notes for people that want even more efficiency*
5950x i believe i still the elephant in the room, when you can get a 5800x that is just as good for gaming, for even less power wattage (excluding undervolting), so for watt-efficiency to gaming performance, the 5800x is still the winner, but you know grats on the 5950x it's great for other things :) like mining
a 3070 is a good choice for being a high performance video card, but it's actually one of the weaker ones with wattage to performance, if you want the true top dog, it's probably the 3060, mine can run hunt showdown (more or less the same intensity as halo, probably even worse cause optimizations for AAA) @ 110 watts from the wall (with undervolting) and it still gets 100+ fps
so you could probably shear off a good 15-20% with proper undervolting, but if you were just looking for pure watt efficiency, a 5800x would be king (you could go lower if you're willing to sacrifice performance)
everything else about the build looks great though, i love the aesthetic rgb, a 3070 is a fantastic card regardless, psu is sized properly (resting around 50% utilization under full load)
great work :)
i've been looking at building solar crypto miners, it's a struggle cause battery storage is rough, vs the cost to run 24hrs on grid.
You my friend are definitely godly for this
Its funny that the thumbnail isn’t about how to live out of a solar powered van, instead its about how to game with it in a forest 😂
Your Van Life style is my dream😃
Great video but you forgot the power draw of the monitor.
I will be at work. Leave the stream video at the channel. Happy birthday tho. :)
I will for sure be there for your bday homie!!
Your birthday is coming up again! Party again? I wanna come!
damn i missed your bday bro :(
happy late birthday :)
cool , was thinking go off the grid , my complite rig , pfsence , file server editing rig , audio amp , comsume 500-600 wat at 220v , so is in theory posible ,
Thank you for you advice in you video. And yes I'm going to see you video on Friday .I love you videos I play also . Have fun and stay safe.and thanks again for you videos.
Happy birthday!
Thanks for the info bro!
Awesome video! Love the set up! Are you at all worried about taking your van off road now that you have a gaming pc? Even with the vertically mounted GPU I would still be really scared about that.
Gotta love how we live in s time where almost every technology hardware is power efficient and not a premium option. S lot of things can be powered with just batteries.
Awsome i cant wait for the live stream!
depending on what games you play you could use much less watts actually, with certain mini PCs.
Damn, my setup (minus the monitors) uses about 600 Watts since I work mostly with animation
You can do low voltage on the GPU without losing any performance through it and reducing power
Hyped for Friday
Can you try more games? Like horizon, rts games, newer titles like cyberpunk etc for comparison of watts pulled tnx more power to your videos
one big thing is thats the power consumption under load, when ur just browsing the web/watching youtube its way lower.
Right. I mention that in the video.
@@TrentTheTraveler oh I must have missed it haha thanks!
this bro living the dream
I was gonna do a ps5 but i dont know i hear it draws like 500 watts. So thats amazing 🤣
I get sleep paralysis all the time. This one time it happened to me. I woke up like everything when it happens to me, I new it was about to happen. Next thing you know boom it happens but this time. When I closed my eyes. I saw a glowing outline of the devil sitting on the throw almost like the beings you see on DMT. The next morning my niece woke up and told us that she woke up in the middle of the night and saw two glowing eyes at he bedroom door.
Happy birthday :)
My Fiancée and I love the videos!
what happend when your battery get low?
You PC does not damage due to low voltage???
please tell me, i also wanna do this
Wow loved the thumbnail