frozentundra123456
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- Aug 11, 2008
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do you know how much electricity $140 buys? from anandtech's testing, overclocked to 4.5 ghz, the 8320e uses 120 watts more than the 7350k. lets assume 4 hours a day of doing that. so, every other day the 8320e will use 1 kwh more than the 7350k. at current US electric rates of 12.75 cents per kwh, that's nearly 2200 days difference. do you remember what hardware you were rocking 7 years ago? even accounting for air conditioning, you're talking about 5 years of difference.
My point was that *in addition to* the electricity cost of the FX, the price difference is no where close to 140.00 if one buys a standard i3 or even more so the hyperthreaded pentium.
For instance, New Egg prices are as follows: FX-8320 = 124.00, i3-6100 = 120.00, and the G-4600 is only 90.00. And using your own figures, the FX will use 22.00 per year more in electricity. So, except for the corner case microcenter bundle, which despite the obsession with it of a certain poster, is not available to the majority of the US, much less the rest of the world, the FX is actually the most expensive option, considering TCO, when compared to a conventional i3 or the new HT pentium. In fact, in four years, the electricity cost savings, again, by your own figures, would actually pay for the pentium, compared to the usage of the FX. TBH, I dont know why anyone would consider the overclockable i3 at the current price, unless they just wanted to play around and see how high they could clock it. It is a terrible value proposition.