I'm looking for community experience with the G620. The reviews I've googled look positive vs. i3  2100/T, assuming you don't need HT. This will be for a new primary server on a Supermicro MBD-X9SCL-O R. (have it already) Primary use will be serving media, 30 crashplan clients, some sabnzbd. No encoding. This will be replacing old hardware so I need to minimize the downtime/messing around.

 

BTW, Supermicro support says the G620 is supported on that board.

Not sure anyone is using one yet.  I plan to buy one when the realtek driver issues get sorted out.  Supermicro boards are too rich for me in the UK and most of the other vendors use the troublesome 8111 chip for their gigabit.

Supermicro is usually too rich for my hobby uses, too. In this case it was an open box.

 

I'm surprised nobody has spoken up about these here. It shaves $40-50 from an i3/2100 build for what should be indistinguishable performance & power differences. Maybe Raj has an unpublished build up his sleeve?

They are still new,  pretty sure builds will come.

It has been talked about here - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15129.0

 

And there are even lower priced chips like G530 here - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116409

Yea, single-core version of same, no? Glad these things are finally shipping. Should be quite reasonable.

 

Here's a June comparison between the various G Pentiums and other processors, including i3.

 

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-g850-g840-g620.html

 

Quick power comparison: (full system)