I'm planning on getting these parts.

Whon said:
I can honestly see wanting the intel if you are trying to drop you UPS usage. Not a bad reason, but for shear saving bucks on bills, it's really minimal. National average electric rate is around 10 cents per KW/hr (where I'm at we are only 6.6 cents) so to save $10 a month your cpu will have to reduce it's power consumption by 137.5 Watts roughly. You can see some conversions here as a 100W light bulb costs around $0.24/day and to save $10 a month you need to save around $0.33/day. This is also figuring for a 24hr a day use. Not saying it's not possible, that just seems like a lot of power to reduce. If it can I may just be a converter.
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No actually it's purely a business decision..price/performance/power usage all come together. right now it's intel.
 
I can understand the decision I was just giving a quick basic calc on what to be looking for on you watt meter (if you have one measuring) to get your savings you are looking for.
 
Hescominsoon said:
BTW if you are going to contradict me..please actually read my posts and/or don't try to put words into my posts that don't exist.
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Well, sorry if was going to contradict you.

I know some stuff about CPUs, I just don't know the technical stuff; pins, cache, etc.

Caleb's plan for a newer, better PC is really up to him. I assumed you knew about power drainage of the CPU and related.
 
They exploded some old AMDs by setting their multiplier and clock as high as it would go then taking off the heatsink. the CPU basically tears itself apart as its kinetic energy increases.
 
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