On 30/07/12 06:08, Michael Mol wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 30/07/12 05:23, Philip Webb wrote:
i5-2550K & FX-4100 both use 95 W
(some of the more costly AMDs use 125 W ).
Note that power savings are not important if you're not using a laptop. CPU
power savings on a desktop don't translate to any relevant amount of money
on your electricity bills. This is because neither of those CPUs really use
95W. That's just the thermal upper limit.
To be fair, power savings are relevant if you're concerned about your
electric bill, or if you're concerned about heat management in your
system.
Consider my dual E5345...leaving that on 24x7 appears to cost me about 90USD/mo.
CPU power savings will transform that into a 89.9USD/mo ;-) That's what
I mean. It's not worth much. It helps quite a bit with laptop battery
life. But for desktops, it doesn't do anything too useful.
