Okay yes that would be nice but spend £500+ on a new rig to save how much in power/cost?
Plus you say swapping his PC cut his monthly electricity bill in half? Can you run through the maths on that? That’s pretty amazing.
He lives in a ‘trailer’ in Wisconsin, US. He paid around $100 a month for his electricity. His computer was an FX-8350 with 16GB DDR3 ram, a pair of GTX 970s in SLi, 4 spinning hard disks and a 2.5" ssd.
He replaced his board/cpu/cooler/ram: 2700x with 16GB DDR4 ram, and added a 1TB nvme ssd. Everything else was the same, and his electricity bill dropped to $50 a month.
he runs his computer 24/7 pretty much. He’s had it (2700x) 3 years now and says its more than paid for itself.
Yeah, still doesn’t add up for me.
The average monthly UK electric bill is £80 a month currently. So I would have to save £40 a month from just switching to Ryzen from a FX. Wow!!! Why isn’t the whole world doing this? Call Martin Lewis now!!! 
Running both setups (8350/2700X) with the same kit except switching the CPU and ram to DDR4 I put the details of the two rigs into power calculators and running the 8350 stock costs £60 a year. The 2700X £56 a year. The 8350 currently clocked how it is at the moment £55 a year.
You know…I’m just not going to get those massive savings am I.
I would say your friend is exaggerating a little.
He’s not given to exaggeration. He does, however, live alone and he has a very spartan life, so I think it’s entirely possible that a large proportion of his electricity use is his computer, and hence changing it to a more power efficient one made the difference it did.
it’s also possible that US electricity bills are structured differently to ours.
I’d say he’s being wildly mis-calculated by the power company. Or did he forget he fitted solar panels to his trailer? 
A Ryzen is more power efficient than a FX but there is no way other than bending the laws of physics, swapping that one part (okay and MB and RAM) will magically cut my electric bills in half. I wish it could though. 
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