Golden Oldies

[souljazk]

The 2500K's TDP is rated at 95W and the 5600X is rated at 65W. I don't know how much 30W will affect my electricity bill, but 65 is whole lot less than 95. So there's that.

Look into some Gamers Nexus vids re the 2500k & 5600x, they should brush over the overall system power use. IF I recall correctly the TDP is more a measurement of how much heat (Thermal Disipation Property) the CPU gives off & not how much power it pulls, but I could be wrong.

Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K review (Page 7)

Today we test and review Sandy Bridge, the Intel Core i7-2600K and Intel Core i5-2500K processors. We will pair the 2600K processor with the Intel Desktop Motherboard DP67BG and also run a test with the Intel Core i5-2500K processor on a Intel DH67BL motherboard

www.guru3d.com

What is TDP how does it affect your PC's performance?

TDP has everything to do with heat and little to do with power.

www.windowscentral.com

AMD Ryzen TDP Explained: Deep-Dive on TDP Definitions & What Cooler Manufacturers Think | GamersNexus

stub Thermal Design Power, or TDP, is a term used by AMD and Intel to refer in an extremely broad sense to the rate at which a CPU cooler must dissipate heat from the chip to allow it to perform as advertised. Sort of. Depending on the specific formula and product, this number often ends up a...

www.gamersnexus.net

Some info for you

 

[Tsakie]

You need friends for this to be viable

All jokes aside. 30W at 12 hours a day is not saving you that much. If you are in the highest block on prepaid this will be your cost saving.

12 x 30W = 360W daily

360W x 31 days = 11160W total Watts saved in a month

11.1KW cost at the highest prepaid block rate will be R1.755

Total saving will be just under R20 per month.

I am typing this quickly, so please don't judge any methods used or acronyms used to make my sum here.

 

[FrikkieDieSoldaat]

All jokes aside. 30W at 12 hours a day is not saving you that much. If you are in the highest block on prepaid this will be your cost saving.

12 x 30W = 360W daily

360W x 31 days = 11160W total Watts saved in a month

11.1KW cost at the highest prepaid block rate will be R1.755

Total saving will be just under R20 per month.

I am typing this quickly, so please don't judge any methods used or acronyms used to make my sum here.

Wow thats nothing. Geez and here I thought I got a compelling argument for my wife to agree on the upgrade...

 

[FrikkieDieSoldaat]

Look into some Gamers Nexus vids re the 2500k & 5600x, they should brush over the overall system power use. IF I recall correctly the TDP is more a measurement of how much heat (Thermal Disipation Property) the CPU gives off & not how much power it pulls, but I could be wrong.

Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K review (Page 7)

Today we test and review Sandy Bridge, the Intel Core i7-2600K and Intel Core i5-2500K processors. We will pair the 2600K processor with the Intel Desktop Motherboard DP67BG and also run a test with the Intel Core i5-2500K processor on a Intel DH67BL motherboard

www.guru3d.com

What is TDP how does it affect your PC's performance?

TDP has everything to do with heat and little to do with power.

www.windowscentral.com

AMD Ryzen TDP Explained: Deep-Dive on TDP Definitions & What Cooler Manufacturers Think | GamersNexus

stub Thermal Design Power, or TDP, is a term used by AMD and Intel to refer in an extremely broad sense to the rate at which a CPU cooler must dissipate heat from the chip to allow it to perform as advertised. Sort of. Depending on the specific formula and product, this number often ends up a...

www.gamersnexus.net

Some info for you

Thanks dude, Steve really likes his details... I love that guy. What I got from the article is that once temps are stable, the TDP and the electicity consumed will be a near perfect 1:1 match. Steve writes:"Once the system reaches steady state, the rate that heat is released in watts is the same as the rate that electricity is drawn in watts" and TDP is a man made rule of thumb.

 

[goldfritter]

Wow thats nothing. Geez and here I thought I got a compelling argument for my wife to agree on the upgrade...

The main benefit of running less power, is making less heat, so you can have cheaper and/or quieter cooling solutions for your PC.

 

[FrikkieDieSoldaat]

I'm still gaming on a 3570k

Delidded by @G3t Wr3k3d

Running 4.5 stable on all cores at 1.28v

As much as I love her, I do eventually wanna upgrade to something newer.

But for now she's running just fine.

https://imgur.com/a/Y8Y2VjN

Maybe I should clean up my case and also post some pics.