Should I cancel my order and get the 95w instead of the 125w?

[droidix]

I just noticed the difference in wattage between two processors at newegg: Phenom II x4 @ 95w and 125w. Both are the same price and I ordered the 125w. It just charged and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to cancel the order and start over with the 95w one?

Thanks for the help!

Note: CPU is Phenom II x4 945

 

[505090]

I'm sure there are more differences than just the wattage

 

[gkay09]

^ If you can then go ahead and do it...that difference in TDP would translate to power savings of the overall PC...

 

[gkay09]

And the CPU would run cooler too...

 

[droidix]

Thanks for the responses. My only other worry is with the motherboard support. It is a Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P and could come with BIOS revision F1, but F2 is needed to support the 95w version of the CPU according the support list on Gigabyte's website. Would I be able to boot into the BIOS and update it using the unsupported CPU?

 

[gkay09]

There is no guarantee that the mobo would boot with an unsupported CPU...

But as you will be getting a new mobo, it should come with the updated BIOS wouldn't it? And that too the BIOS update was posted on 2009/06/24 according to the website, - which is about nearly 2 months old...