In a nutshell: While modern aircraft carriers are gigantic vessels packed with amenities one might not expect to see on a warship, the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales has something unique: a full eSports/gaming suite for the crew to compete against each other.
In February, permission was given to set up the suite on the 1,600-crew carrier as part of a partnership between the Royal Navy and the British eSports Federation.
The gaming room includes 12 high-end Alienware Aurora R15 gaming desktop PCs, featuring RTX 4080 graphics cards and Core i7 CPUs – the systems are capable of running far more than just low-demand eSports games. The room also has LED lights, a widescreen TV, and office chairs.
My guy it’s not just “the fans will be loud” it’s legitimately “the cooling is inadequate and the case traps heat in a cycle”. The hardware can be fine but if it’s all boiling at 100C it robs performance due to thermal throttling.
If the GN tests accurately map to whatever the navy’s using, the difference in most games isn’t that significant despite the suboptimal cooling, and if they’re usually just playing TF2 and Halo 2 (as per article) then even 50% of full performance should still be plenty.
Exactly… For Halo 2 and TF2, even if this rig were running at 50% efficiency it could do 200 fps at max settings.