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2600S vs 2600K

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hardbard

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Hi good people of Anandtech!

I have peculiar demands of my CPU. I need it to be silent and run 100% 24/7. (I run boinc (wcg) and due to points I need it to run 100% of the time). Being situated near the bedrooms - so if I want the PC on during nights it needs to be dead silent. 2600S offers a TDP of mere 65W while 2600K has 95K. However 2600K is tweakable.

Could I by simple means get the 2600K run as a 2600S and still have the flexibility to run higher TDP?

All comments are most welcome 🙂
 
Welcome to the forums hardbard! :thumbsup:

If you want quiet then you should look into water-cooling and some noiseblocker fans.

I've got my 2600K on a H100 with push/pull on noiseblocker fans, it's silent at 3.8GHz.
 
hardbard said:
so if I want the PC on during nights it needs to be dead silent. 2600S offers a TDP of mere 65W while 2600K has 95K. However 2600K is tweakable.
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At night and silent.

Sounds like the machine would be idle then?
TDP is a maximum.
Idle power is much, much lower than TDP. And also very similar between all the 2xxx processors.

As IDC says, look at quiet cooling solutions instead. My experience is that (unfortunately) you get a lot of "quiet PC" marketing that may or may not perform well in the real world. Check Silentpcreview.com for some serious testing. Your 1st concern should be retrofitting all fans with fans from their list and a good aftermarket CPU heatsink. The good fans there are very quiet. You can adequately cool 100-150w from the CPU with virtually inaudible fans if you do it right. Right isn't all that cheap, because it does take a new cooler plus 3-4 fans, but trust me, do it right the first time.
 
IIRC, the TDP that Intel lists isn't the processor at max, but some obtuse "average" power usage that Intel comes up with. I'd assume that they get this number because they're dropped the stock, non turbo speed down to 2.8Ghz, but I'd be surprised if that's indicative of the TDP at 3.8Ghz turbo, because apart from the lower "standard" clockspeed, the processor seems identical to the 2600K. I'd get the K processor, and if you find the fan noise too loud, just tweak the BIOS settings to drop the maximum turbo speed 'til you can't hear it any more. As Idontcare said, chances are if you get a water cool setup, you won't hear it anyway. The K series processor will give you more flexibility if you decide you want to overclock during the day, and drop the speed down at night.
 
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