Dual-Core Chip Ends Pentium's Reign

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Originally Posted by Skybird

I am not willing to go beyond max 600W power consummation for the complete system... which already is 180W more than what I have now... The article says the new toy is power-efficient, let's see how that will be after that new CPU has seen several evolution phases... There is a reason why 1.3 kW PSU are laready on offer. Ridiculous, if you ask me...

Agreed. Any upgrades I make, other maybe to a faster but modest single core amd cpu or a 2nd hard drive, will mean a new PSU as well (to replace my 6 month old 350W that works perfectly - for what it powers now) and probably a high efficiency 500W, minimum, with lots of amps on the 12V line for these power crazy video cards and cpus of today.