Quote Originally Posted by ZERO View Post
If you are referring to efficacy power: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/pcs...investigated/1 this study concluded that watt for watt Intel is better...
hell I was right, the graphs also show that the Phenom II is more powerfull then the i3 :P

Considering the Mobos for that cost 100$ and the CPU costs 100$ also, I think that the power you save is rather insignificant
It uses the same amount of power on idle, just uses more on full load. who puts a quad core on full load? I hardly do that with my Pentium unless im converting a video, even then the speed of such a processor means it takes less time to do it


hmm didnt put the Mobos into my logic above.