Power Consumption

Thanks to its higher clock speed the Athlon II X3 435 draws a little more power than the 620 at idle, but uses a little less under load. The new energy efficient chips can't be touched. Personally I wouldn't spring for them, but if you're looking to upgrade a building full of machines and want as much power reduction as possible the e series can deliver.

Idle Power Consumption

Load Power Consumption - x264 HD Bench Pass 2

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  • tamalero - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    by any chance you're a Intel worker? you sound like you do.
  • maddoctor - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    Intel did not do that. All the given evidences are false and could not prove anything.
  • taltamir - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    "no competition to keep prices low"

    [sarcasm] Thats right, if only there was no COMPETITION prices could be LOW... it is a well known FACT that competition serves only to raise prices! [/sarcasm]
    That is the dumbest thing I have heard in a very long time.
  • mm2587 - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    wow. Way to fail at reading comprehension.

    The man is say if there was no competition there would be no reason to keep prices low. He was saying "if there was no competition to keep prices low, intel would raise prices"

    So lets read next time before we call anyone else stupid.
  • silverblue - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    Not quite... at least, not in my opinion.

    On page 6, maddoctor posted:

    "Whatever AMD product throws to market, rubbish is a rubbish. Intel products prices will make AMD's prices room tighter, and AMD is going to sink into oblivion. I love it because Intel prices will be cheaper to consumer."

    I may have misinterpreted this, but his post seems to be indicating that if AMD were no longer in the game, Intel would have no competition and would LOWER prices in accordance. Something which, as we all know, not only wouldn't happen but is totally contrary to common business practices. If there's only one supplier, you're not going to go find cheaper options from somebody else; you'll be tied to that one supplier and they will feel less need to improve their designs.

    As odd as it may seem, that's what I believe he was referring to.
  • SunSamurai - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - link

    You do fail at reading comprehension.
  • silverblue - Friday, October 30, 2009 - link

    Interesting statement to make when you fail to back it up.

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