Bulldozer is aimed more at servers; for your needs, AMD has the "Fusion" line of processors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Bulldozer is aimed more at servers; for your needs, AMD has the "Fusion" line of processors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion That said, the Bulldozer chips have relatively power-efficient cores, and it will shut off power to cores that you aren't using. If your system isn't particularly loaded, there's no reason for it to burn enormous amounts of electricity.