Hello,
at the moment I use an AMD A10-7800 in order to run a small system which I use as a “server”. The server runs a variety of different applications, a Minecraft server, a Csgo server and some other gameservers. Because energy is fairly expensive where I live, I want to change the processor (and the mainboard if necessary) to something more energy efficient. I want to continue to use my “old” DDR3 Ram, that’s why I don’t want to buy a new processor. Performance wise I’m pretty happy with the A10 7800 (Cinebench r15: 240 points). When idle, the total power consumption of the system is round about 40W, but if the Minecraft server is running it draws over 100W.
So in short, I’m searching for an energy efficient processor that supports DDR3 and that you can buy used pretty cheap.
Sebastian