reuse the E4600 or Celeron530 ?

[badcompany]

Looking to populate a small home server for filesharing and media duties like Playstation media encoding/streaming nothing heavy.

whats best build a rig around Celeron 530 or use old 4600 and few bits I have kicking about.

will need case/psu if I choose 4600 how do they compare power consumption and performance wise would the money spent on new cpu be captured with lower running costs if thats the case.


ta

 

[semi-pro waster]

To compare the max power you can use the Intel website which shows that the E4600 has a max TDP of slightly over double the Celeron 530. However in normal use there's likely to be much less difference, especially since the E4600 comes with Speedstep which the Celeron doesn't.

I'd have my doubts that you'd recoup the money potentially saved through lower power consumption over the short to medium term but I've not calculated any numbers to support that, I'll leave that to people who know more about it.

 

[badcompany]

ok thx thats great save me some money towards my gaming pc I need to upgrade.

 

[SoundsGood]

E4600 should overclock well

 

[Subliminal Aura]

I was running an e5200 o/c to 3.3ghz and g530 systems

At those speeds the e5200 was a touch faster than the g530 in benchmarks BUT the g530 system was a much snappier system probably due to the memory bandwidth.

g530 power consumption will also be light years ahead of the dual core system. If running 24/7 choose the g530 - If strapped for cash keep the dual core

 

[Subliminal Aura]

However in normal use there's likely to be much less difference, especially since the E4600 comes with Speedstep which the Celeron doesn't.

The celeron does have speedstep. I recall it popped from 1600 to 2400mhz - very low volts and power consumption.... I'm sure I measured the energy usage at around 20-30W at the wall - It was something crazy low that did impress.

The e4600 will have to be overclocked to approach similar performance as the g530 and as we all know - overclocks add to mega watts

 

[badcompany]

just running xbmc off it and bit of streaming to ps3/xbox

 

[Subliminal Aura]

just running xbmc off it and bit of streaming to ps3/xbox

Streaming or transcoding ? Streaming should be fine (reading the file off the network). Transcoding on the fly might hurt the cpu but both should be up to the task (I think)

 

[semi-pro waster]

The celeron does have speedstep. I recall it popped from 1600 to 2400mhz - very low volts and power consumption.... I'm sure I measured the energy usage at around 20-30W at the wall - It was something crazy low that did impress.

I'm just going on what the Intel website as I linked to states - the Celeron 530 doesn't have enhanced Speedstep while the E4600 does. However it also appears you're talking about a Celeron G530 while I've looked at a Celeron 530. My mistake.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

D'Oh .... Think OP needs to clarify that

 

[eddyr]

If it helps to create some rough numbers, my dad's (everything at stock) e5200, asus p5ksomething-am epu, HD3450, 2gigs ddr2 and 2hdd's on a aging 520w psu pull between 62-70 watts at idle/office and 100watts under IBT. I imagine yours would pull similar perhaps more (or less even if using a suitably smaller psu?).

If you could save yourself 30-40 watts (a la Subliminal Auras example) everyday (24/7/365 up time) it translates to £40-52 per yr at a 0.15 £/kwh electricity cost price.

 

[badcompany]

wow thanks that exactly the sort of data I wanted to see, look like the 4600 is the way to go as I will only be running for a couple of hours a day.