Recent content by chx1975

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    Passively cooling i4770k?

    http://www.hd-plex.com/hdplex-h10-series/ supports CPU up to 125W. What about that?
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    Best for single threaded and quiet?

    The 1230 is said to work without ECC in http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/343775-28-using-xeon-1230 here and http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2295453 here. Those are v2 but I don't think the v3 makes a difference.
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    Best for single threaded and quiet?

    I've seen the cpubenchmark page but was unsure how reliable it is. I have a GPU already (just a 7770, a few games I play) so no graphics is good. So far the E3-1240V3 is indeed looking like quite the winner edit: if it works with normal RAM. For cooling, I am really leaning towards NT06-Pro...
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    Best for single threaded and quiet?

    I have a task which is mostly CPU bound (almost to the point of a synthetic benchmark). Most of the time I want to run one of it, very occasionally I'll need to run a lot of them where I can control how many execute in parallel. (For example think of compiling a single program vs make -j N) I...