On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 06:09:22PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
I'm in gnome, with 4 xterms, and running iceweasel and xpdf:
you must have a lot more patience than I do.
note that the max power usage of the A4-7300 is 65W versus 20W for the C7
That's not great news. [...]
see rick's message for info on some similar but much lower power CPUs. also, newer motherboards and other parts tend to be much more power-efficient than older ones. your newish 320G drive, for example, probably uses less than your old 40G drive, especially if it's a "green" or 5400rpm drive.
- but the A4-7300 includes a built-in Radeon R3 graphics processor. if your current graphics card is as old as your mb and cpu, then it probably uses at least 30-40W anyway, and isn't anywhere near as good as the R3....9+ years is a LONG time in the evolution of GPUs.
There is no off-mobo graphics at present. If I'm tempted down that road, then yes,
the graphics built in to your motherboard also uses power and isn't included in the 20W used by the C7 CPU itself. it doesn't really matter whether it's built-in or a separate card, it still uses the same amount of power. you could find out how much by identifying what brand/model of graphics is built-in and then looking up the details of an equivalent standalone card. running 'lspci' may tell you. or maybe your m/b manual.
I'll have to at least dump the old drives to power a new card.
another advantage of SSDs - they use much less power than hard drives. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>