I am sure all are aware that Edge and Chrome both use hardware acceleration. They both have the ability to stay running the background and do so by default if you don't change it.
Question is this....
If you aren't USING the browser, but haven't turned off the background process WHAT exactly is it doing?
I did a reformat of one of my gaming machines and of course have to recall all the things I turned off and set differently than default. I have noted that between the two of them the GTX1080 will be running between 11-29% usage. The second I start to do something actively on the computer, it stops. I had only fan curves and temps to tip me off to this initially, and I have to sit with task manager open in order to catch what it was.
I went in and turned off the appropriate things to have it stop. Seriously though, that is a LOT of computing power when spread across millions of (possible) machines.
Are they working coin hash on us in the background? Using everyone on their browsers as one HUGE supercomputer?
What gives?
Question is this....
If you aren't USING the browser, but haven't turned off the background process WHAT exactly is it doing?
I did a reformat of one of my gaming machines and of course have to recall all the things I turned off and set differently than default. I have noted that between the two of them the GTX1080 will be running between 11-29% usage. The second I start to do something actively on the computer, it stops. I had only fan curves and temps to tip me off to this initially, and I have to sit with task manager open in order to catch what it was.
I went in and turned off the appropriate things to have it stop. Seriously though, that is a LOT of computing power when spread across millions of (possible) machines.
Are they working coin hash on us in the background? Using everyone on their browsers as one HUGE supercomputer?
What gives?