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How to build a green PC
If you're savvy in the components you choose and in how you use your PC, you can cut your electric bill and get a good, warm eco-friendly glow.
Jon Skillings Director of copy editing
A born browser of dictionaries and a lifelong New Englander, Jon Skillings is director of copy editing at CNET. He honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into editing tech publications back when the web was just getting under way. He writes occasionally, on topics from GPS to James Bond.
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- 30 years experience at tech and consumer publications, print and online. Five years in the US Army as a translator (German and Polish).
If you build it, it can be green. That is, if you're savvy in the components you choose and in how you use your PC, you can cut your electric bill and get a good, warm eco-friendly glow. But will you get all the computing power you desire? Such are the potential trade-offs.
Read all about green gaming PCs, extreme green machines, and more at Ars Technica:
"Ars System Guide special: it's easy being green"