which intel chip for HTPC/NAS

[darknite]

Ok 2 options so far.

1 Intel i5 4570T 35w dual core £163
2 Intel i5 4570S 65w quad core £143

Heat is my major issue, less heat = less noise

Machine will be used for 1080p viewing, file sharing around my network.

Is the T version worth it? Machine will be on 24/7 so less power usage the better. But it will be idle most of the time really.

Thoughts?

 

[samcat]

I use a 4570T in a streacom FC5 case, totally passively cooled and it barely gets warm.
I imagine that the 4570S would be fine, but for £20 I didnt want to gamble... This way I know it should be fine even on the hottest of summer days. Fans are the enemy!

 

[darknite]

Ah thing is it is going to sit under a corsair h100 I have spare Plus need some air flow over the hard drives. 6 of them in a stack will produce more and more heat. So this system will still have 4 fans, but all sub 20dba on max load. 2 through the h100 2 over the drives and psu

 

[Stas823]

Why not the 4560k? Surely those font give out much heat especially on a h100 (with good non stock fans)

 

[kefan77]

4560K doesn't exist.

any modern Intel chip is capable of doing what you want. I probably wouldn't spend more than £50 on G3220 if I was building that myself.

you should have no problem cooling it passively. I was using just Hyper 212 heatsink to cool 2100 and 3220 for about a month and no issues, even under load.

I wouldn't use H100 in HTPC tbh.

 

[Admetos]

I would consider a regular i5 (non k), then I would undervolt.

A good stable PSU will allow more undervolting.

 

[darknite]

Ok let me update and give more information

2 cpu choices are now the
i5 4570T 35watt dual core 2.9ghz £163
i7 4765T 35watt quad core 2ghz £240

Less heat = Less noise
Less power = more pennies in my pocket

I could passively cool it, but going to try the H100 as its free.

Case is a Lian Li V358
Board Asus MAXIMUS VI GENE MATX
Drives 3x Seagate 4TB NAS (expandable to 6)
Raid Card Intel RS2SG244 raid card

Machine will store rips/backups General data storage for family's movie/mp3 collection. Couple of friends would like off site data backup. Also play 1080p files to the TV.

I guess the question has changed to, dual core or quad core?

 

[nails666]

I would have thought both of those would be way more than adequate for that usage. I have an HP N54L Microserver that only has a dual core 2.2GHz AMD Turion chip (way way less powerful than either of the 2 you suggest) and that works fine for doing exactly those things you want to do.

 

[cheesyboy]

Of those, the i5 is more than enough.

But I can't see the advantage of going 4570T over the i3 4130T for ~£50 less. They're almost identical anyway.

Or even dropping down to one of the low-power Pentium options.