When shopping for your PC or its components these days, are you more...

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consciously appraising the product by performance, price or energy saving techonology? In the past, I have always been shopping for PC components that offers the best price with a reasonable price tag. However, I fail to take into consideration that some of these components really consumes a lot of power. When I buy these parts with a savings of $30 or $40 dollars, these savings may cost me more for my utility bill in the long run. After knowing how much more I can save on electricity bills, I am more conscious about the features a component has to reduce power consumption or effectively using it. Few parts that consumes a lot more power than others are...cheap power supply with low power efficiency...LCD monitors vs CRT...Processors that runs on lower voltage with a smaller core 65nm vs 45nm...unplugging USB devices when they are not in use...set the PC to turn off its harddisk and underclock the processor speed when kept idle for a number of hours. As using a computer is essential to my work...there is no way I can substitute it with something else. I think that when I do not need to pay for the electrical bills of my home, I do not feel the pinch of the huge power usage of my PC. Now...I have to put in more effort to cut down on unnecessary usage in my house... Do you also take into consideration on power consumption or simply do not bother about it? ie. "I want maximum performance from my computer and nothing less..."