Emission
Supreme [H]ardness
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I was reading around the forums that it's a pretty good value for the price and that it has excellent performance. I'm currently only running an i3-2100T right now and wouldn't mind having the upgrade to kinda complete my system since my CPU is the only thing thats really behind.
I game a lot, but I do pull up the occasional VM for random things, typically coding or web browsing, just kinda mixed PC usage. I used to have an i7 920 and I really enjoyed having the 8 logical procs to just do whatever on, PC never slowed down. Could've stuck with it but I got rid of it in favor of more power efficiency, and now with SB, the E3-1230 is only a 80W TDP chip and its more powerful than the i7 920 too.
So I'm just wondering what you guys think of the E3-1230 and if anyone has run it on a H67 board or similar, or know if it will run in said board (Helios is the system in question, in the sig). If there are any better (ahem, cheaper) alternatives to a 4C 8T chip running at ~3.2 GHz for the 1155 socket, I'm all ears on that one as well.
Thanks guys, all input is appreciated.
I game a lot, but I do pull up the occasional VM for random things, typically coding or web browsing, just kinda mixed PC usage. I used to have an i7 920 and I really enjoyed having the 8 logical procs to just do whatever on, PC never slowed down. Could've stuck with it but I got rid of it in favor of more power efficiency, and now with SB, the E3-1230 is only a 80W TDP chip and its more powerful than the i7 920 too.
So I'm just wondering what you guys think of the E3-1230 and if anyone has run it on a H67 board or similar, or know if it will run in said board (Helios is the system in question, in the sig). If there are any better (ahem, cheaper) alternatives to a 4C 8T chip running at ~3.2 GHz for the 1155 socket, I'm all ears on that one as well.
Thanks guys, all input is appreciated.