Aaron Ryan
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I'm a power efficiency nazi, and I like my servers running cool and low power.
I built a Mini-NAS for my home, and I got a AsRock E3C226D2I w/ 16GB ECC RAM,
Seasonic SSR-360GP 360W power supply, Fractal Design Node 304 case, and 4x 4TB WD Red drives.
I also has a choice between a i3-4130T 35watt TDP or E3-1231v3 80watt TDP.
I thought since the i3-4130T has only 2 cores with 2 hypertreading that it would be the power saver.
Well it turns out that at Idle the E3-1231v3 and i3-4130T pull the same power (24watts).
I think the added Intel HD Graphics 4400 on the i3-4130T makes up for 2 missing cores.
Of course, under load, the E3-1231v3 pulls 91watts and the i3-4130T is only 42watts. (this included m/b components and memory booted from a USB Flash drive)
The E3-1231v3 computation power is awesome (passmark = 9567)
compared to the i3-4130T (passmark = 4134)
I'm keeping the E3-1231v3!!
I thought I'd share incase someone else is trying to choose too.
I built a Mini-NAS for my home, and I got a AsRock E3C226D2I w/ 16GB ECC RAM,
Seasonic SSR-360GP 360W power supply, Fractal Design Node 304 case, and 4x 4TB WD Red drives.
I also has a choice between a i3-4130T 35watt TDP or E3-1231v3 80watt TDP.
I thought since the i3-4130T has only 2 cores with 2 hypertreading that it would be the power saver.
Well it turns out that at Idle the E3-1231v3 and i3-4130T pull the same power (24watts).
I think the added Intel HD Graphics 4400 on the i3-4130T makes up for 2 missing cores.
Of course, under load, the E3-1231v3 pulls 91watts and the i3-4130T is only 42watts. (this included m/b components and memory booted from a USB Flash drive)
The E3-1231v3 computation power is awesome (passmark = 9567)
compared to the i3-4130T (passmark = 4134)
I'm keeping the E3-1231v3!!
I thought I'd share incase someone else is trying to choose too.
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