[prima-facie]

That CPU is a great choice.

The specs on paper won't tell you the whole story. I've got the Pentium G5400 and even though it's rated at 58W TDP its actual power consumption and heat output is on the low end.

I don't have my notebook with me but I ran a small at home experiment with a kill-a-watt sort of device while monitoring temps. Found consumption to be around 21W in idle, 26W for light loads, between 35W and 42W when doing heavy loads like compiling, transcoding, etc.

Temps are 28C in idle, up to 42-ish under load.

These CPUs lack Turbo Boost which is responsible for high temps in many instances.

[znpy]

Thanks, that was a very informative comment.