Downgrading for Efficency

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pricetag_geek

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Will I get a significant decrease of power consumption? I want to downgrade because I think its not worth to pay for the extra wattage of my system the fact that I only use my PC for Movies and Dota 2.

My Current Setup:

Phenom II X4 955BE
Emaxx 880G FXN
1TB WD
320GB WD
2x 2gb DDR3
GTX 660ti
24X LG ODD
FSP Raider 650w

Planning to downgrade to this:

Pentium G3220
Gigagbyte H81M DS2
1TB WD
2x 2gb ddr3
24X LG ODD
FSP 650w
HD 7750 ddr3 1gb
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3B7ji
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3B7ji/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3B7ji/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130T 2.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($129.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D2V Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($53.18 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Mwave)
Total: $388.13
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-29 23:37 EDT-0400)
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C12Friedman

C12Friedman

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I'd be inclined to say "Don't downgrade, underclock". You should be able to disable one or two CPU cores and lower your clocks and power settings for the graphics, see just how far you can get your power consumption reduced with what you have there, IMO, it would seem to be better than purchasing a new system
 
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CTurbo

CTurbo

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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3B7ji
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3B7ji/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3B7ji/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130T 2.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($129.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D2V Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($53.18 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ Mwave)
Total: $388.13
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-29 23:37 EDT-0400)
 
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pricetag_geek

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The cheapeast build that can run dota 2 at max settings 1080p :D im not going to buy a whole new system, just replace my cpu and gpu and take away one of the hard drives.

 
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