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Low power consumption CPU for an esx host at home?

DJMK4

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Hi all what Intel CPU iX based would you reccomend for an esxi host running at home?

At the moment I have an old host running on a wolfdale e8800 high end dual core.

Need something that's cheap to run but has a good amount of punch processing wise can sit quietly idle and burst up when needed. Cheap to run but can handle a fair whack of vms?

Looking to pick something up from MM
 
There's some low power i3's, think they end with a T?

Or you can go for an AMD AM1 setup, cheap 25w quad core.
 
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Great thanks all :) that should give me enough info to look around finding a suitable chip and seeing if I can get a good deal in MM its going to be a budget build so cheaper the better.
 
I have a 4790T, great chip, probably struggle to pick one up cheap though. 45W is an exaggeration if they're anything like mine, mine takes a 0.100 undervolt and never goes above 35W, also completely passively cooled which is a nice bonus.
 
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Yeh looking at the prices seems there has been a jump since I last looked at cost :p

I'll have a look around over weekend
 
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I seen some reasonably well priced E3 xeon chips a month or so ago. I think some of those are as low as 20 watts and the older generations work with regular desktop boards.
 
I run a 4570R Gigabyte brix as my esxi host

I measured the system idle as fluctuating around 15w - 20w but obviously on load it shoots up :D

Since we're talking about power saving .... I actually do not need to run the host 24/7 and was wondering if anyone knew if it's possible to Suspend the host to RAM and WOL ?

If so .... what cli command do I need to suspend the hypervisor ?
 
I'm running a passively cooled media and backup server in about a 8x8x3 inch case with a 15w i7 5500u, it works great and its silent.
 
Pretty much all recent Intel chips are low TDP, the majority of their rated TDP takes into account the iGPU so if you're not loading it (ie. with games) then they're really power efficient anyway.
 
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