Quote Originally Posted by GoThr3k View Post
complaining about a couple of watts...

you probably have a vid card eating about 200W,so 10W orso extra on the cpu won't matter much
what if i had 45W 2600XT, then the 10+W extra would had made difference in system power consumption.

but it´s not big deal, im just saying amd is fond of their efficiency, especially in idle or under semi load, which make sense, you dont stress cpu all the time. they often argument it as an advantage over intel and now new architecture 2.4+GHZ DC CPU´s are going to draw more than 65W.

i expected opposite direction but wont mind it if its a tradeoff for cracking performance. wonder if nortbridge running at higher clocks/voltages than cores has to do anything with it.