I mentioned power just to round out three major complaints about the chip. Intel chips are more expensive, consume more electricity, and benchmark lower. In ge

I mentioned power just to round out three major complaints about the chip. Intel chips are more expensive, consume more electricity, and benchmark lower. In general, as a home user, you should care about power consumption in desktop computers for the following reasons. * Higher power requirements means more expense in other parts of the build. It means higher PSU requirements, and stronger cooling requirements. * If you ever plan on running the PC on battery backup (UPS or Tesla Powerwall) or if you plan on installing solar energy then power consumption becomes a bigger expense.