Intel Sandy Bridge Pentium G620 $68 Shipped!

[Aaron Ledger]

The new Sandy Bridge based Pentium offerings look like they give a lot bang/buck. 

Newegg is offering the Intel G620 for only $68 with free shipping when using promo code EMCYTZT564. Deal is good through 6/28.

Happy building!

[oliverredfox]

When I saw this, I got really excited.  Then I remembered it’s the G620T I want.  I hope they put the 35w one on sale soon.  Not that $15 more is a big deal, but it makes buying easier to justify when it is on sale.

[swoon]

Did you see the review from X-bit labs? While it is only one sample, it seems like it’s worth it to just take the price differential and buy the G620.

[oliverredfox]

I saw that review.  The box I want to put it doesn’t do anything except record and playback shows (4 HD streams and 2 NTSC).  Video decoding is offloaded onto an ATI card, so the processor doesn’t really take any hits.  It’s running an old AMD X2 4600+ 65w CPU, but I’m tempted to bump it to a 35w Intel and try and lower the power signature even more on it.  I could probably ditch the ATI card too and use Intel HD graphics for playback and really lower the footprint.  I do all my transcoding and power work on my i5 system.

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