i3-4330T vs i3-4340

[Marsigne]

I have personally lowered an i3 2120's multiplier on a B75 mobo

Thank you for your response. Did you lowered the multiplier in the BIOS, or with a program? How much you lowered? Did you got stuck when lowering down somewhere? I want the i3-4330T but I can't find it anywhere, so it would be good to get the 4330 (4340 is 100 MHz more but $20 more, not worth it lol) to be to 4330T like. (I explained about i3 cannot overclock but how about underclock? and chipset things earlier but I was going to post it but computer freezed!!! -.-)

That's a precious advice.

I'm done, I promise 🙂

Don't get done too fast (unless you mean done for more questions here) as you investigate you might change your mind, just an advice 😉, as it happens to me. I3-4330 is 100 Mhz less (miniscule difference depending on case, in your case it is no difference as you wont do nothing too heavy as you described) for $20 less on newegg. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116945)

And as you are watching "some movies" you can also get the i3-4130 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=19-116-946) which is 100Mhz less (3.4) and it is HD 4400 instead of 4600, but you will save $20 more, which is $40 save from 4340, or $20 from 4330. If I were to choose between those 3, I would get the 4330 depending on budget or what I want, if I were to watch movies and/or basic everyday usage, I choose the 4130, as HD 4600 will do better only when watching movies with high quality (I dont know, the 4400 could even do it good as I dont know the performance of it) as both can handle movies on normal quality good, as almost every card. My brother views videos of 20 minutes a lot (so like 6-9 videos make a movie lol), and he views videos on normal quality with an very old iGPU, NVIDIA Geforce 6150SE nForce 430, and a CPU of 2.8GHz, and he plays videos excelently, so I think that with i3-4130 it will be pretty good for what you have mentioned. My opinion about your situation is: If the computer will be used for everyday usage and watch videos and stuff, I definitely go with the 4130 of the three choices, as, why buy $20 or $40 more on something faster that you wont even need the faster speed? If it were free choice I would get the 4130T.

 

[CTurbo]

The 25w AMD A6-5200 Kabini quad core would be all the OP needs. If he insists on getting an i3, the 4130 or 4130t would be the best bet. No point in paying extra for the 4330 just down underclock it and turn it into the 4130. Passive cooling can work with a good heatsink and proper ventilation, but the passive heatsinks are usually expensive. Is it worth paying so much extra for complete silence?

AMD also has two other EXTREMELY energy efficient quad core apus with VERY powerful graphics in the A8-6500t and A10-6700t. They are listed at 45w, but you would have absolute control over them to undervolt/underclock the cpu base, cpu turbo, gpu, northbridge, or all of the above. The A10's base clock is 2.5ghz and the turbo is 3.5ghz. You could lower the turbo, or disable it altogether. Just disabling turbo would cut power down in half.

 

[Marsigne]

The 25w AMD A6-5200 Kabini quad core would be all the OP needs. If he insists on getting an i3, the 4130 or 4130t would be the best bet. No point in paying extra for the 4330 just down underclock it and turn it into the 4130. Passive cooling can work with a good heatsink and proper ventilation, but the passive heatsinks are usually expensive. Is it worth paying so much extra for complete silence?

AMD also has two other EXTREMELY energy efficient quad core apus with VERY powerful graphics in the A8-6500t and A10-6700t. They are listed at 45w, but you would have absolute control over them to undervolt/underclock the cpu base, cpu turbo, gpu, northbridge, or all of the above. The A10's base clock is 2.5ghz and the turbo is 3.5ghz. You could lower the turbo, or disable it altogether. Just disabling turbo would cut power down in half.

That's nice, but where can we find A8-6500t and A10-6700t? Both doesn't exist in newegg, and in amazon only exist the A10-6700t but with 241.39 dollars 🙁 on cpu-world it says $142 at introduction, others says $188, but shouldn't be above 200 🙁. where are other good efficient processors with good video?

UPDATE: Can't even find A6-5200 on newegg lol.

By the way, if I turn the Base clock of the A10-6700 from 3700 MHz to 2500 MHz (like T version), bring turbo frequency from 4300 MHz to 3500 MHz, and bring down the frequency of - from 844 MHz to 720 MHz, it will have 45 TDP (or almost same, as have to turn down voltage as well), making it same as the T version?

 

[CTurbo]

A6-5200 + motherboard combo for $142 - http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-KBN-I52&c=FR&pid=def0331ebeabf24044e113d891e6a2007f6053f2edf655aca7408c8e7cc07996&gclid=CMyznM--qbsCFUho7Aod2mIAqg

A8-6500t for $110.78 - http://www.provantage.com/amd-ad650tyhhlbox~7AAMD2VU.htm?source=googleps&gclid=CO7As8G_qbsCFShk7Aod_3MA2Q

I can't find the A10 6700t at the moment. That's weird because I have seen it on sale before.

 

[CTurbo]

Yes you could probably turn the regular 6700 into the 6700t version. It's only 65w to begin with.

 

[claudio1]

Hello all,

I found this topic interesting, as it's my turn to design the home PC.

I'm fully convinced to take one 4330 (54W), and I too came to that after thinking about energy saving T models... at last I found out that 4330 here is even cheaper than 4310/4310T so, no doubt.

One thing annoys me though... in the Intel Data Sheet, they say "idle states NO", while all other options (4310, 4310T, 4330T, 4340) have it to YES. Is that real? Or is a mistake from Intel team? I found no discussion about that online, it seems I'm the first to notice it.

No Idle States would mean much more energy consumption for a PC 24h up like mine, or am I wrong?

 

[CTurbo]

The 4330 is cheaper than the 4130 or 4130t?

 

[claudio1]

The 4330 is cheaper than the 4130 or 4130t?

Yes...

I found:
4330 at 109,20€ Link 1
4130 at 118,00€ Link 2
4130T at 120,20€ Link 3

Some 4330 data are wrong (65W, 3M) and seem to indicate they confused it with generation 3 cpus... but Serial Number is correct and 1150 socket forces it to 4th generation cpu. I'll ask them before buying anyway...