Your video card is killing you in power. After you pick a new low power one, if that is not enough, then go the L5639 as suggested, very low power, and you don't have to change your motherboard. Then overclock if more horsepower is needed.
Your solution is a 10w reduction.
i5-4670k - 46w power consumption at the wall for 1080p full screen hardware accelerated flash on youtube.
I think you're greatly over-estimating the cost of a cheap B87 board and discounted Haswell i5 after he sells his current cpu and mobo.
Since we have no idea what the OPs system is drawing we've been using the other guys system with the 460, which is a 10w difference.
Yes he could sell his 275 for $60, pocket $30.
Or he could sell his 275 for $60, his i7-920 for $120, and his board for $75 (depending on which he has) and brake even.
Stock i5-4670k + HD4600 iGPU
42w idle
86.6w during prime95 26.6
Are you really going to save that much $$ by buying new equipment? Even if it's just an Xenon cpu for ~$100, are you really saving $100 a year in electricity? Really? I don't get all these comments to replace a working pc that is obviously more than the OP needs with equipment that costs more money. My power bill averages around $100 a month. Less in the winter and more in the summer. My biggest cost is running the a/c in the summer and the friggin' water heater and maybe the dryer on occasion. I leave my hot, power hungry i920 on all the time. When I do eventually upgrade, I'll just hand it down to the missus. Back to my question. Just how long do you guys think it will take to recoup the investment in new equipment with the energy savings? I think that if you don't need a new machine then it's just flushing money down the drain.
...plus reduce the massive heat increase in the room....
Why not get an i7-4770? The stock 4770 uses a LOT less power than the 920 does......
IIRC the 4770 idles at less than 1V, it will make a pretty massive difference in terms of power consumption. You may also want to switch GPUs as well, I had a 285 back in the day and it was a guzzler - i'd imagine the 275 is as well. That is, if you need a dGPU. It actually sounds like the iGPU on the 4770 would be more than enough for your needs, thus saving even more power.
If he doesn't play games currently, then his GPU is mostly idle anyway. How much power does a 275 use at idle? Yes, he would save power but a new i5/7 would be that much better.
Your video card is killing you in power. After you pick a new low power one, if that is not enough, then go the L5639 as suggested, very low power, and you don't have to change your motherboard. Then overclock if more horsepower is needed.
just get a haswell core i5 with H87. use quicksync for encoding. you don't need a separate GPU.
This is what I would do.Or just get a i5/i7 and use the iGPU.
but his MB can be more inefficient, or he can buy a haswell mb which is more inefficient than yours...
You want to save power and edit videos, go for i7 3770k and Radeon HD 7770.
I'm with Gillbot, even though he can't find me. :thumbsup:
Yeah, it's hard to tell anyone for sure what to do, since everyone has different hardware budgets.
If things are tight, there's two more considerations which would be downgrade / sidegrade. Cheaper than the i5/i7 route, and also lower performing.
wait for the Haswell i3s to be out and go with one of those. video conversion speed would be slower than a 920, but really not as much as you might think for a dual core. All those little IPC improvements add up, plus HT, plus extra clock speed over a 920 means it actually performs on-par in some cases.
http://anandtech.com/bench/product/47?vs=677
The Haswell i3's will be marginally faster than that comparison. The IB i3 encoding benchmarks range from ~equal to ~60% with an average around 80-85% the speed of a stock 920. A downgrade, for sure, but would be a cheaper solution to lower power consumption and the more modern cores would be faster in anything using 1-2 cores.