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Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge Retail Box......$53.99 w/fs!

Nice deal, good budget cpu for a gaming rig too.
Even beats paying gas and tax for the $49.99 everyday price at Microcenter B&M.
 
Recently finished an ITX HTPC using this CPU and a Gigabyte H61 USB3 MB. Surprisingly fast.

Had to use a low profile HSF due to a small HABEY EMC 800BL case. It does run fairly hot @ around 60c. Was able to bring this down about 10c by cutting a hole on the top of the case and mounting a 10mm x 60mm case fan on top. There is a fan mount inside the Habey case but it is so close to the case side that it makes much too much noise. According to Gigabyte software, this cpu is only using 4.1-4.5 watts at idle and around 20 watts streaming HD video. As stated above it is even capable of light gaming and is really only hampered by the pretty slow on die video. Would be nice if Intel would upgrade it's video offerings.
 
Great chip. I have this in my main rig, and while it's no 2600K, it is surprisingly adequate for office work and development.
 
drshivas said:
Great chip. I have this in my main rig, and while it's no 2600K, it is surprisingly adequate for office work and development.
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what do you mean development, LOL :whiste:

compile would take forever on this thing. Although, that gives you more coffee time. ^_^
 
Grails apps in NetBeans, light asp.net development in VS 2010. Good enough for the price. (also have lots of RAM) I used to have a 2600K and got out of crunching and folding, and downsized to the extreme. 🙂
 
borisvodofsky said:
what do you mean development, LOL :whiste:

compile would take forever on this thing. Although, that gives you more coffee time. ^_^
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i dont know what you guys work on, but I think its perfectly fine for most code.

i suppose if you need to build kernel code and recompile linux kernel a lot, you probably want the fastest cpu you can get just becuase it'd be irritating
 
Raswan said:
See what other say, but I think it would handle WoW fine, long as your GPU is similarly decent and you've got enough RAM.
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i'd assume it'd be more than enough for WoW.


i mean granted WoWs graphics have been updated, but I ran WoW at 1600x1200 when it came out on a pentium D 820 and a 7900GT or somethign and that was "high end" at the time.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-g850-g840-g620_4.html#sect0

there doesn't seem to be a huge difference in games for HT except in the F1 game . Starcraft 2 seems like HT makes no difference at all. they used a 6970 which is much faster than anything you'll need for WoW, and the i3 2100 only seems to get more FPS because its clocked higher at 3.1 vs 2.6 (the g850/860 etc are fairly close with their higher clock rates)

Considering the i3 2100 costs about $60 more than the G620 i'd just put that extra $60 into a video card. $60 extra on a better video card. or SSD or something
 
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I got mine at MC a few weeks ago for my HTPC build, $49 + tax... about the same, but fine if you don't live near a MC.

Recently finished an ITX HTPC using this CPU and a Gigabyte H61 USB3 MB. Surprisingly fast.
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I was planning on using a Giga H61 S2H mATX board on mine, probably in a small tower, not a dedicated HTPC case.
 
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