trader_4 writes:
On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 7:02:26 AM UTC-5, wrote:


I just checked the power supply on my 6 year old HP I7 based
PC and it's 460W. That's about the size that power supplies
have been all along.

The key is the TDP for the cpu itself. TDP on Intel CPU's range
from circa 20 watts (for low-end desktop/embedded processors) to
circa 200 watts (for the high-core-count E-series server processors).

TDP is "Thermal Design Power".


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power

TDP's for various Intel processors are he

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswel...roarchitecture)