The rumour that Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren't going to be melting your house down

Intel's past few series of desktop processors have somewhat of a bad reputation for being power-hungry beasts. Its current range of Arrow Lake chips has reversed this trend, fortunately, but with one top leaker claiming that the next generation, Nova Lake, will hit the 700 W mark, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Intel has gone backwards again. However, for PC gaming, you've got nothing to worry about.

That power figure is from kopite7kimi who posted on X that the "power consumption of...