Shell Shocker = MSI H81 Motherboard w/G3220 Pentium Haswell cpu...$102.98 shipped!

[daveybrat]

http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellS...5-_-10012013_5

MSI H81M-P33 LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Pentium G3220 Haswell 3.0GHz LGA 1150 54W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646G3220

Comes to $102.98 w/free shipping.

Nice little motherboard with 2 Sata 6Gb/s ports and USB 3.0!

And of course the cpu is basically an enhanced G2120 Ivy-Bridge Pentium but with better graphics.

 

[cubeless]

got one in the basket but do i really need it? great deal for a baby box...

 

[daveybrat]

got one in the basket but do i really need it? great deal for a baby box...

Well, i don't need one.....but got it anyways! Lol.....will make a nice little MAME computer for me.

 

[JeffMD]

davey, that is exactly what I was thinking. Saddly ive no extra money to throw away, I still need to totaly retrofit my main pc (still bouncing around on a q6600) but some day, I plan to build a mame arcade and this would have been perfect. ^^

 

[you2]

It probably is quite a bit lower; I recently tested a G1610 and it used something like 17watt; 45watt peak (system). Take those numbers with a grain of salt it was 4 months ago and I didn't write the values down. There was actually a review of the g1620 with full load and it was well below 50watt.
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This review provides some numbers for the g1610 (note that the mother board they are using draws a bit more power than the one i used):
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/trinity-vs-ivy-bridge_12.html#sect0

 

[Torn Mind]

TDP is short for thermal design power and is a reference number for cooling system designers so that they can enginner and manufacture a cooling product that can dissipate a certain amount of watts so the chip doesn't go over its maximum temperature threshold and die.

It can only approximate the power of the chip, and with things like SpeedStep, is useless for determining IDLE power consumption and load power consumption can only be APPROXIMATED with TDP. People typically report lower power draw than the TDP for these Celerons.

Also, it seems that the so-called 24 fps "bug" is completely fixed in Haswell, so if someone wants to build an HTPC, they should always go Haswell if they want to go Intel.

 

[sm625]

But does the pentium contain all the video decode blocks that the i-series chips have?

 

[Zap]

Somehow I missed this deal, not that I need it. :$ Good thing it wasn't mini ITX or I'd really be kicking myself.

But does the pentium contain all the video decode blocks that the i-series chips have?

You mean QuickSync? It probably does physically, but is disabled.

 

[JeffMD]

who would want to use such a slow cpu to do any video encoding though. even if it could get a boost from quicksynch, it would still be slow. also quicksynch is crap quality.