The power consumption is not as high as you might think on this CPU. It’s certainly efficient given the performance we’ve seen and that explains why overclocking it was so straightforward too.
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Adding two more cores to the i5 range does mean more heat, but at just 65c once overclocked, we think the CPU could clock higher, although temperatures will shoot up with minimal returns, so water cooling would be advised beyond 5 GHz.
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