The problem with this thinking is that you end up spending hundreds of dollars on a new GPU and it essentially doesn't impact your power bill in an appreciable way. It would probably take years for the "investment" to pay off in terms of energy...
great game that improved upon everything from Fallen Order...definitely some stutters but not enough to get in the way of the overall enjoyment of the game
It's definitely worth more than $10. As for the issues, I had very few of them through my two playthroughs beyond the initial stuttering. That was initially fixed by turning off my e-cores and then after a patch, I was able to re-enable them.
Not only that, but aluminum is very soft compared to steel and scratches pretty easily. Customer machines that were made of aluminum back in the day were always scratched to shit.