A 300 watt cpu is enormously bulky and makes an enormous racket. I remember when I upgraded to a maxwell-based (then pascal) GPU, it was a revelation. It no lon

A 300 watt cpu is enormously bulky and makes an enormous racket. I remember when I upgraded to a maxwell-based (then pascal) GPU, it was a revelation. It no longer sounded like a hair dryer when gaming and no longer was my PC getting annoyingly toasty. Gamers care about noise and heat very much.