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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by theandrewbailey on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:19AM (#28682410)
Power hungry is not a term I'd use to describe a Core 2 Duo.

Or do CPUs need more power to run as they get older? That would be news to me.

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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by kcb on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:59AM (#28684320)
It surely needs a lot more power to do the same work as a modern CPU. Like if you were encoding a video on it where against a modern CPU that may use the same power but finish many times sooner.
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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by Dah00n on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:16PM (#28687635)
The new CPU has another carbon footprint added, plus the RAM and motherboard, etc. to overcome before it is comparable. I doubt a new CPU is effective enough to offset that anytime soon on an average use PC.
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