Originally Posted by
Whiternoise
What's the TDP for a, say, Q6600 equivalent these days?
Sometimes I wonder if the extra processing oomph is that necessary. I run a 6600 at the moment, and I'd much rather trade off the speed for power efficiency (anything that needs more processor gets dumped on a grid, as a scientist). I'm not sure how much it'd save in terms of cash, but you'd need less cooling power for a start.
The only thing that takes a lot of power is transcoding video, but that should be leaning towards GPU acceleration these days, I think.