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New Intel pentium SKT1155 Sandy Bridge out today??

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Yeah, I know - sorry for being unclear. What I meant was that the 2100T will get pretty close to Zacate in daily use and provide much better performance per watt, which is why I think it's an acceptable rival (except in terms of price!). Surely a more efficient Zacate board would only save about 5W?

I have seen the review you link to, but it doesn't include the low-power i3 (unless I'm missing it).
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They reviewed another E350 motherboard before:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-e-350_12.html#sect0

Here is the i3 2100T review:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i3-2100t_11.html#sect0

The Gigabyte motherboard is not very efficient at all.

The E350IS-E45 tested in the first review is even cheaper than the E350IA-E45 which OcUK stocks:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-162-MS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=1949

The Gigabyte motherboard in the second motherboard is much more expensive:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-330-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=1949

The reason I linked to the second review is because it shows you why using large wattage PSUs with low power consumption systems is not a good idea. With a DC-DC PSU the power consumption of the Zacate and Ion systems was much lower.
 
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Hmm, are we seeing the i3-2105 and the i5-2405S or are they delayed?

I don't hold out much hope as the i7-2600S never found it's way into the channels in any great quantity (if any at all).
 
you shouldn't even be contemplating an i3 530 as that is 1st gen i3. i3 2100 is 2nd gen. As for which to choose see whether the extra performance of the i3 2100 is worth £35+
 
There any decent reviews of these up yet? They look ideal for our new builds at work, chopping out £20 per pc cost at least too! Need some comparisons with i3s though

The only comparison i can find so far is passmark, never used it so no idea how reliable it is, also don't understand why the 620 has a higher score than the 850?


Currently in work PCs:
Intel Pentium D 2.80GHz 741
Intel Pentium D 3.20GHz 894

Possible processors:
Intel Pentium G620 @ 2.60GHz 2410
Intel Pentium G850 @ 2.90GHz 2372

What we were going to put in them:
Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.10GHz 3831

There's a fairly hefty difference in both score and price, so im torn as to whether we spend the extra or not, need more in depth benchmarks!
 
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They are in stock now so within 2 days i'm sure we'll see end user benchmarks.

Full specs are up now:

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53480 - Pentium G620
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53422 - Core i3 2100

It obviously has less features but those features aren't useful to the average person. £55 is current price but will lower to £48 in a few weeks which is half the cost of i3 2100 as the cost of 1000 are $117 and $64 which is $5/£3 more than half price so £90/2 + 3 = £48.
 
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Might buy one to test out the performance, most intensive things they use here is CS5 web premium but it's not used a lot, and movie maker but even that runs fine on the pentium Ds. Might even go for the low power option.

Power grid won't know what's hit it when we shutdown the 160 pentium Ds and replace them all :p Not sure what boards to go for yet...
 
yeah, the low power ones go to about the same speed when under low 3.2ghz or so just they are slower when in idle. 35W compared to 90W or 120W for pentium D is a big power drop. Your electrician will be happy :P

H61 boards look good for office use.

unfortunately most sites don't benchmark lower end cpu's like these so you could be waiting a long time for an indepth review.

Ocuk really should do their own benchmarks for the G620 as they hired a reviewer a few months ago.
 
Think we're going to get a G620T + MSI H61M-E33 board to test things out on, i'm sure anything has to be an improvement on pentium Ds and shoddy foxconn boards (all the damn electrolyte capacitors are starting to leak!!)

Might do a mini review of my own when we get it :p though it may be a while seeing as the T models always delayed release
 
might be considering getting the: MSI H61MU-E35 (B3)

£3.50 more for 2xUSB3 ports on the rear, around £52 on a rival site today.
 
Just changed our minds, going for the asus P8H61-I mini ITX boards, we don't use cases you see ;) we have false backs/cupboards on all desks and the motherboards, hard drives and power supplies are all mounted on to MDF, saves a lot of money!

mini itx boards + 40GB intel SSDs + these new 35w CPUs = far less heat, far less power and far less space required. Ideal. :D
 
won't fit our image on sadly, even the 32gb ones aren't enough :( all the software used in the entire place (excluding things that run straight from network shares) comes to 31GB.

Might be able to make it fit if i got an app-v server running and tested in time but i don't think i'd want to rush it.

EDIT: awesome, i can get a G620T, asus P8H61-I, 4GB OCZ mem, intel 320 40gb ssd and corsair cx430 psu for £232! bargain.
 
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yeah thats the price of a dell low end computer, yours will be way faster though :)

corsair force f40 is £10 more than intel 320 but 285/275mb/s speeds instead of 200/45mb/s and way faster IOPS. Maybe get 1 of those.

Hope you can upload a review soon :)
 
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