A competitor was selling a few OEM i5 3570s for £145 so I grabbed one to replace an i3 2120 and I'm very pleased I did. Turbo boost means it's running at 3.6GHz and on a 7500 WU under VMWare Player it's giving 22k PPD. This drops to 18k on a 6097 but it's still pretty good. Temps are in the low 60s but, given that's it's passively cooled, I'm happy with that.
Pleasantly surprised by i5 3570 (no K)
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I'm using a Silverstone Sugo mATX cube case and Nitrogon ST-06 heatsink that are designed to work together. The heatsink is just a few mm from the PSU fan and doesn't have its own fan. As per the thread title, it's a non-K CPU so the only overclock is the turbo boost which is giving me an extra 0.2GHz.
I'm using the VMWare player and a pre-configured Linux VM so it's really easy to set up. It worked for bigadv originally but I don't think it will handle enough threads now. Remember you need at least 16 cores/threads for bigadv so you're wasting your time thinking about it with with a 3770K.
I'm using the VMWare player and a pre-configured Linux VM so it's really easy to set up. It worked for bigadv originally but I don't think it will handle enough threads now. Remember you need at least 16 cores/threads for bigadv so you're wasting your time thinking about it with with a 3770K.
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There are several factors at work here.
First, you have to compare equal WUs. The 7500 for which I get 22k is probably the best one, followed by 6099 which gives me 20K. My i5 hasn't crunched one of the 7808s in your screen shot but, looking at the results for the PC that has, it looks a bit of a dog and I guess I'd only get 17K too.
I then gain a good 10% over native folding because I'm using the 6.34 client under Linux in a Virtual Machine. 3.6GHz + 10% is about 4GHz so not really very different from your 4.2GHz after all.
First, you have to compare equal WUs. The 7500 for which I get 22k is probably the best one, followed by 6099 which gives me 20K. My i5 hasn't crunched one of the 7808s in your screen shot but, looking at the results for the PC that has, it looks a bit of a dog and I guess I'd only get 17K too.
I then gain a good 10% over native folding because I'm using the 6.34 client under Linux in a Virtual Machine. 3.6GHz + 10% is about 4GHz so not really very different from your 4.2GHz after all.