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Anyway I have been using those inexpensive mobo/cpu combos and they work
well and take very little power. My wife's machine has 32 gigs of RAM
and she can easily run several "heavy" apps at once with no bogging down.

Also it is surprising but a PC will draw more power when it is thinking hard.

Hook up a current meter or kill o watt etc to the PC then watch it. Grab
the top of a window and slide it around the screen and watch the current.

Mark

It's not surprising. Most of the power is capacitive switching. No switch,
no power. Run super fast switching, and it sucks power. The logic is not
transistor drawing high idle current, like really old stuff.

Greg