Hey all,

 

I'm thinking of upgrading my server due to fact that I'm not really satisfied with my board (Asus P5K which has a few sata connectors that broke off).. and I was thinking of picking up a cheap LGA 1156 board (Newegg has a nice Gigabyte board for 94$) and the Core i3-530 CPU which is an amazing power saver (compared to this E6500) is only about 110$..

 

I haven't found any posts regarding any new Core i3/i5/i7 or LGA 1156 testing and I'm very curious to see if anyone has tempted it.

 

Btw.. here's the board:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128420

 

I'll be doing some testing on a socket LGA1156 H55 board later this week with an i3-530, including power draw information.  I have comparison data from various hardware configurations, including Atom based boards and other chipsets.

 

 

Will post results in this thread:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5076.165

 

 

This is the board I will be using for the test:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131623

 

 

 

 

Initial results are posted for the Core i3 system here:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5076.msg49964#msg49964

 

I'm very impressed so far.