alex75871

The absent cache is probably the cache packaged with the E-cores? The P-cores should have the same amount of cache. I am not certain though.

Intel has announced P-Core only Raptor Lake SKUs in the form of the Intel Xeon E-2400 series. This comes as no surprise as most virtual machine hosts, including VMware, do not support Intel's hybrid-core architecture. Unfortunately, being a Xeon series, they do not support overclocking. However, the top SKU features a base clock of 3.2 GHz and a boost of 5.6 GHz across all eight performance cores. Additionally, the E-2400 series offers support for 10 and 25 Gigabit Ethernet.
 
There are three 8-core SKUs to choose from, each with varying TDPs. Additionally, there are offerings with 4 and 6 cores.
 
E-2488: 8-cores, 3.2 GHz (base), 5.6 GHz (boost), 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 95w TDP, socket 1700
E-2478: 8-cores, 2.8 GHz (base), 5.2 GHz (boost, 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 80w TDP, socket 1700
E-2468: 8-cores, 2.6 GHz (base), 5.2 GHz (boost, 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 65w TDP, socket 1700
 
My thoughts
The Intel E-2xxx series and its predecessor, the E3-12xx, have always been interesting lineups of CPUs, offering affordable solutions for home and small business servers, workstations, and are sometimes compatible with certain client/consumer motherboards.
 
Sources
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/e-2400-product-brief.html
 

Intel has announced P-Core only Raptor Lake SKUs in the form of the Intel Xeon E-2400 series. This comes as no surprise as most virtual machine hosts, including VMware, do not support Intel's hybrid-core architecture. Unfortunately, being a Xeon series, they do not support overclocking. However, the top SKU features a base clock of 3.2 GHz and a boost of 5.6 GHz across all eight performance cores. Additionally, the E-2400 series offers support for 10 and 25 Gigabit Ethernet.
 
There are three 8-core SKUs to choose from, each with varying TDPs. Additionally, there are offerings with 4 and 6 cores.
 
E-2488: 8-cores, 3.2 GHz (base), 5.6 GHz (boost), 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 95w TDP, socket 1700
E-2478: 8-cores, 2.8 GHz (base), 5.2 GHz (boost, 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 80w TDP, socket 1700
E-2468: 8-cores, 2.6 GHz (base), 5.2 GHz (boost, 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 65w TDP, socket 1700
 
My thoughts
The Intel E-2xxx series and its predecessor, the E3-12xx, have always been interesting lineups of CPUs, offering affordable solutions for home and small business servers, workstations, and are sometimes compatible with certain client/consumer motherboards.
 
Sources
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/e-2400-product-brief.html
 

Intel has announced P-Core only Raptor Lake SKUs in the form of the Intel Xeon E-2400 series. This comes as no surprise as most virtual machine hosts, including VMware, do not support Intel's hybrid-core architecture. Unfortunately, being a Xeon series, they do not support overclocking. However, the top SKU features a base clock of 3.2 GHz and a boost of 5.6 GHz across all eight performance cores. Additionally, the E-2400 series offers support for 10 and 25 Gigabit Ethernet.
 
There are three 8-core SKUs to choose from, each with varying TDPs. Additionally, there are offerings with 4 and 6 cores.
 
E-2488: 8-cores, 3.2 GHz (base), 5.6 GHz (boost), 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 95w TDP, socket 1700
E-2478: 8-cores, 2.8 GHz (base), 5.2 GHz (boost, 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 80w TDP, socket 1700
E-2468: 8-cores, 2.6 GHz (base), 5.2 GHz (boost, 24MB cache, 48 combined PCIe lanes, 65w TDP, socket 1700
 
My thoughts
The Intel E-2xxx series and its predecessor, the E3-12xx, have always been interesting lineups of CPUs, offering affordable solutions for home and small business servers, workstations, and are sometimes compatible with certain client/consumer motherboards.
 
Sources
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/e-2400-product-brief.html
 

Did you read what Ubiquiti has to say?
 
Are you sure? Why not attach an unmanaged 5 or 8 port gigabit switch to the ER-4 and call it a day? I'm sure this would be less expensive than using SFP, especially since you're still not exceeding gigabit.

For Folding, in my experience bumping up to the 4070ti would yield much better efficiency. My 4070 comes nowhere even close to the efficiencies I get out of my 4070tis.

I'm doing about 3.250.000 PPD on average on my 4060. Depending on the project a WU will finish between 1h15min and 2h, most have been around 1h20min so far. Pretty decent I'd say at 115W power. The poor value for gaming argument makes no sense to me. The card performs quite a bit better than a 3060 at the same price (at least in my area) The 3060 Ti offers better value in terms of fps but at nearly twice the power drawn (it also is quite a bit more expensive unless you get a generic one). I also like the faster CUDA processing for video rendering. I use the Gaming X from MSI, even at full load it is super quiet and stays really cool. Folding has shown it works even on cards that are connected to narrower PCI-e interfaces, same as with mining, as those workloads are mainly done on the GPU and require less overall system interaction. The value argument makes sense if you are a generational upgrader and are on a 3060 now and expected more. I'd put the 4060 as a 3060 replacement rather than a generational upgrade. In my case I was upgrading after years of overpriced GPUs from a GTX 960 and a friend of mine replaced his 1060 as well. The increase in gaming performance in 1080p is quite significant. I do like the efficiency here. That being said, if I were to buy a new monitor (currently 1080p 60Hz), I'd get a 4070 or the equivalent from AMD. 
 
EDIT: 
 

Likely not. Windows stops trying - usually. Or if you never want this to happen ever again (and also get no windows updates:)

Win+R
services.msc, Enter
Windows Update
right click > Stop
Right click again > Properties
Set startup type to Disabled
 

We have similar consumer laws in New Zealand (the Consumers Guarantee Act) but it's ambiguous and most people don't realize they can take advantage of it.
 
The law is ambiguous because it has wording such as "a products must last a reasonable amount of time".
 
I had my PS4 replaced outright by a major retailer in NZ even though the product was 2 years out of warranty.

I hope a more affordable MB comes with 8 memory slots and ATX.

Thank you for the in-depth explanation. Marked as solution.

Your system can install Windows 11 as you have TPM 2.0. You just fall into the "if you have any problem, you are on your own" side of things. But it will install just fine. Just, not tested by MS. Which is fine as nothing really changed in the desktop CPU side of things since ages until recently with Zen and Intel 12th gen.
 
The real issues are:
The issue is that manufacturers don't want to support older hardware. Which is important, as some had issues that needed to be solved, like Ryzen 5000 series had performance issues when TPM is enabled (regardless of OS). Windows 11 uses security technologies that have a performance impact. Newer CPUs have technologies to offload such tasks to reduce/illuminate the performance drop from those security features. (Depends on the CPU. Typically, newer is better, and in some cases, the CPU is fast enough to make the performance drop negligible)  So, in your case, all you'll have is a warning about the upgrade process. Now Microsoft does say that you may not get updates, but this is more legal stuff to protect themselves in the case something big happens and a fix needs to be done which involves using newer CPU instructions. Or would gain a lot of performance to do. For example, Windows 11 22H2 update is the last version of Windows 11 that runs on older ARM64 arch CPUs. So, the after that version, Snapdragon 810, 820, Pi4 and others will BSOD at startup (Those aren't supported system s of Win11). This is unlikely to happen on x86 world, as it isn't in a situation of desperation to get things running smoothly. 
 

By default, the Windows installer obeys a CPU whitelist that starts at 8th gen.
 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors
 
Use Rufus to create an installation drive. It can patch the installer so it will ignore the CPU requirements. Just remember that it's a solution "for now" that won't necessarily keep working forever.

400w SeaSonic 80+ Plat
 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZWQXUQ?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 

My total system load is ~150w under load, hence why I want a 300-500w max PSU.
 
I will take a look, thank you

Closest thing to what you want could be one of the seasonic fanless power supplies. For example the SeaSonic PRIME 600 Titanium (over 500w but its the lowest titanium rated one I found) or one of the Seasonic Prime PX Fanless (there is a 500W variant thats 80+ Platinum)

Not exactly. There are settings to Fold only when idle but Folding will typically use 95-100% of the GPU while running.
 
You can power-limit or clock-limit the GPU while folding but it would require manual intervention when wanting to use the full capability of the GPU when not Folding.

@alex75871they're out in US and EU:
 
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Prime-H670-PLUS-Intel-Motherboard/dp/B09NWG5BRR
 
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Gaming-H670-PRO-Motherboard-Type-C/dp/B09NWFPC34
 
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813119536?Description=h670&cm_re=h670-_-13-119-536-_-Product&quicklink=true
 
https://geizhals.eu/?cat=mbp4_1700&xf=317_B660~317_H610~317_H670
 
But the Asus Prime H670 Plus is arguably worse than the Asus Prime B660 Plus (worse in I/O, USB, but more PCi-E lanes,overall B660 looks better) check the detailed easy to figure out comparison below:
 
https://geizhals.eu/?cmp=2660875&cmp=2660678&cmp=2660681&cmp=2661021&active=3

They arent always THAT bad, its just they tended to cost a fair bit more then 10th gen since they were the "new" cpus at the time, and when you could buy a 10850k for 300$ at microcenter, or buy a 11900k for 550$, that has 2 less cores and performs worse, what would you rather do?
 
Generally it just comes down to pricing.

11th gen was never a bad generation in a vacuum. They were just a poor value compared to both AMD's offerings and cheap Intel 10th gen parts. If you can get 11th gen stuff for a good price it's fine.

Personally I would scale back my OC if CPU temp exceeded 85c or 90c on an extreme OC. If your processor is not OC then you have a serious cooling issue.

Linus Torvalds must be in on it. Maybe he developed COVID so he could imbed Linux in the vaccine and control us using 5G.

Linus Torvalds must be in on it. Maybe he developed COVID so he could imbed Linux in the vaccine and control us using 5G.

Linus Torvalds must be in on it. Maybe he developed COVID so he could imbed Linux in the vaccine and control us using 5G.

Of course Linus Torvalds would defend the vaccine. The 5G nanobots they inject you with are running Linux.
 
/s