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I got the 4130t thinking it'd be decent and low power but I found it was regularly running at 100% just doing normal tasks. I jumped up to a Xeon e3-1275L v3 (aka i7-4790T) for $90 on ebay. It's my favorite cpu ever! It runs on any 87 or 97 series motherboard. I like it even better than my i7-4770T which is really close in performance but I've found the 4 core boost on the Xeon (again same as 4790t) is about 300-400mhz higher than the 4770T and single core boost is at 4ghz. It's nuts. Definitely consider a Xeon cpu on the 1150 platform. Any E3 12xx v3 cpu should work. The ones with an "L" in the name are low power.Out of curiosity Ive tried downclocking and undervolting my 4790K to match the 4790T and it failed to boot so badly it somehow corrupted my bios... So I think there is definitely some binning involved in Intel identifying the best low tdp cpu's.
I got the 4130t thinking it'd be decent and low power but I found it was regularly running at 100% just doing normal tasks. I jumped up to a Xeon e3-1275L v3 (aka i7-4790T) for $90 on ebay. It's my favorite cpu ever! It runs on any 87 or 97 series motherboard. I like it even better than my i7-4770T which is really close in performance but I've found the 4 core boost on the Xeon (again same as 4790t) is about 300-400mhz higher than the 4770T and single core boost is at 4ghz. It's nuts. Definitely consider a Xeon cpu on the 1150 platform. Any E3 12xx v3 cpu should work. The ones with an "L" in the name are low power.
Out of curiosity Ive tried downclocking and undervolting my 4790K to match the 4790T and it failed to boot so badly it somehow corrupted my bios... So I think there is definitely some binning involved in Intel identifying the best low tdp cpu's.
