<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">From another thread ... </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 1:34\u202fAM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 2025-07-26 17:46, Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> It's an ancient CPU and there has been no noticeable change in performance.<br>
> <br>
> CPU is AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor, so yeah, ancient. Works <br>
> just fine.<br>
<br>
Considering its power consumption, what's the break even point, if you <br>
buy a new computer? :-) You know, I threw away all my old computers <br>
simply because I couldn't afford the electricity.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I ran similarly ancient CPUs until a few years ago. The driver for upgrading</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">was not power consumption. Rather, it was getting a more current mother</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">board, faster RAM, more CPU threads, ...etc. </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The dollar cost of power consumption of the CPU itself would not be a huge </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">difference, at the individual level (vs. collectively, impact on the environment</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">and so on).</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Let us compare the two 'ancient' CPUs that are mentioned in that other thread</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">(<a href="https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1782vs393vs6029/AMD-FX-8320-Eight-Core-vs-AMD-Phenom-II-X6-1090T-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-8600G">AMD FX-8320 and Phenom II X6 1090T vs. a current desktop CPU, an</a></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1782vs393vs6029/AMD-FX-8320-Eight-Core-vs-AMD-Phenom-II-X6-1090T-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-8600G">AMD Ryzen 5 8600G</a>).</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The TDP for the former two is 125W, and the latter is 65W.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">If I plug in my cost for hydro ($0.11 before tax), and assume the desktop is </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">powered 24/7 at 25% load (say it is a home server for example), the difference </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">per YEAR is ... wait for it ... a whopping $14.48! </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">That is $1.2 per month, which is really negligible if dollar cost was the </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">only factor. <br></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><br></div></div>