Hi,
Am looking at upgrading my PC with AMD chips being the likely ones.
Around the same price bracket there are several possible contenders like the Athlon2 x2 265 at 65W, the Athlon2 x3 450 at 95W and just a little pricer a Phenom x4 840 95/125w.
My initial choice was the x2 265 as that has a max power use of 65w so would seem suited to my PC which has to be kept on all day with some very low activity 'background' programs.
It would be good to have the more powerful chips but as they use extra cores and have larger maximum power ratings I would assume when running my 'background' programs they would still use proportionally more power than the little 265 65w chip ? - or will they all use about the same power at these lower activity rates ?
Am looking at upgrading my PC with AMD chips being the likely ones.
Around the same price bracket there are several possible contenders like the Athlon2 x2 265 at 65W, the Athlon2 x3 450 at 95W and just a little pricer a Phenom x4 840 95/125w.
My initial choice was the x2 265 as that has a max power use of 65w so would seem suited to my PC which has to be kept on all day with some very low activity 'background' programs.
It would be good to have the more powerful chips but as they use extra cores and have larger maximum power ratings I would assume when running my 'background' programs they would still use proportionally more power than the little 265 65w chip ? - or will they all use about the same power at these lower activity rates ?