Core i3 vs. Phenom II X3 "clock-4-clock"

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Here's an AMD 760G system running 23 W in idle. Even though it's a low end system, it shows what the dated 700-series is capable of. They're not all the same though. The 760G, 780G, 780GX are made in 55 nm, and the 770 and 790FX are made in 65 nm.

Your rig is probably using that much power because you're running a PII together with DDR2, a 4850 that uses quite much power in idle even though it's GDDR3, and the hottest running AMD chipset today AFAIK.

Thats good to know that amd has chipsets with low power consumption.
However, comparison still stands, 790FX is the top AMD chipset for phenom II ,and P55/H55 are the top chipsets for Intels clarks.
They used 285GTX here on both systems:

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Here 280GTX


Update.- I read some other reviews, and from what i see when they dont use 790FX idle power consumption goes down, and whats weird from site to site results can be pretty much TOTALLY different, in one review idle of amd and intel are the same, on the other theres 40W of difference.Weird.Shutting up now.