I've been able to find dozens (hundreds?) of comparisons of 4670s to other chips, and lots of references to power consumption of these chips in different systems. But what I have not been able to find is this:
when running AT IDLE, is there any significant difference in power consumption across the different flavors {i5-4670, i5-4670T, i5-4670S} of this chip?
I have an application where the system will remain idle most of the time and power is especially expensive, BUT it can't be put into sleep or hibernate, it's got to be up and running 24/7... No discrete video cards, no hard drives, just the CPU and the gigE port... but I do need (or at least badly want) the new intel instruction sets.
So the decision comes down to whether the slower chips offer any significant idle power savings, or whether they all basically clock down to the same number when they're not busy. Again, I do not care how much power they draw when loaded, only at idle.
I was able to find power benchmarks for just about every other comparison you could want, but I couldn't find anyone that tested multiple flavors of the same chip for idle power draw on the same system.
when running AT IDLE, is there any significant difference in power consumption across the different flavors {i5-4670, i5-4670T, i5-4670S} of this chip?
I have an application where the system will remain idle most of the time and power is especially expensive, BUT it can't be put into sleep or hibernate, it's got to be up and running 24/7... No discrete video cards, no hard drives, just the CPU and the gigE port... but I do need (or at least badly want) the new intel instruction sets.
So the decision comes down to whether the slower chips offer any significant idle power savings, or whether they all basically clock down to the same number when they're not busy. Again, I do not care how much power they draw when loaded, only at idle.
I was able to find power benchmarks for just about every other comparison you could want, but I couldn't find anyone that tested multiple flavors of the same chip for idle power draw on the same system.
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