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What Watts do these new processors consume ?

SpeedStep makes a big difference but I believe the 6300 in speedstep mode uses about 22 watts on average. The chip will dynamically scale to the cpu load.
 
Those figures for the TDP of the conroe in the [H]Ocp article are really dissapointing. Most peoples pcs sit at idle nearly 90% of the time and yet the AMD systems used 30-40W less at idle with speedstep/cnq on and up to 60W with it off! That is a massive amount of power - my whole HTPC uses less than 60W in total. 30W 24/7 adds up to more than £30 in electricity over a year.

The full load numbers are ok for a high end chip but probably as high or higher than a comparable X2 4800+ etc (we know that the FX is the power hungry beast in the AMD line up)

I like the look of the EE 3800+ ... 30W less than the conroes at idle and 60W full load. It would make a great choice for an HTPC or low power silent PC.

I'd like to see some numbers for the lower end conroes (6300 and 6600) but it looks like conroe although a dramatic improvement over the p4, can't quite claim to be the most energy efficient choice out there, a shame as I was hoping intel would push the low power thing further.

Marc
 
Interesting.
So Intel market their average TDP rarther than the max that AMD does.
Clever marketing that.
 
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