Intel vPro?

[Meewwww]

So my AMD 8350 is starting to sh*t itself, I've been searching college Surplus stores and I've found a few desktops that have i5 vPro CPUs, I'm pretty poor atm as I'm a college student going to school for Computer Engineering so it's kind of important to have a reliable computer.

What would be ideal is if I could get one for free but I'm willing to put down like $20 on a surplus computer, how comparable are these CPUs?
 

I'm from Washington State if that helps anybody else look for surplus things

 

EDIT: Oh I've also checked Craigslist quite frequently but I can't find anybody who is just throwing stuff away

[Electronics Wizardy]

vpro is just a extra feaute, it will preform like a normal cpu. Those i5's are pretty fast for the price, so id go for them.

[Jurrunio]

Exact chip model?

[Eeglis]

25 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

vpro is just a extra feaute, it will preform like a normal cpu. Those i5's are pretty fast for the price, so id go for them.

If I'm not incorrect the vPRo is the virtualization feature, and it's pretty important for an automation student. In automation we spend a lot of time on computers, so who knows, he might need the vPro edition.

[Meewwww]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

Exact chip model?

Not sure, otherwise I would have posted it in the op

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, Mew said:

Not sure, otherwise I would have posted it in the op

I actually wanted to ask whether you want laptop or desktop since vPro is available on both platforms :D , but now, seeing that you are replacing your 8350, it should be a desktop. Right?

 

http://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=processors&VProTechnology=true

 

I'd suggest picking a locked Haswell (4th gen) CPU in this list and scrap compatible part from the used market, since you have a tight budget and Haswell also uses DDR3 ram. There are plenty of them and they have lost most of their price premium already, so you can get the most for your money.

[NumLock21]

Vpro lets you do awesome things where non vpro systems can't. You can remotely power on/off, maintenance, reinstall os, update the bios and continue to have control of a system even when it crashes.

The remote bsod control, needs intel amt kms, part of intel vpro technology.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 hours ago, Eeglis said:

If I'm not incorrect the vPRo is the virtualization feature, and it's pretty important for an automation student. In automation we spend a lot of time on computers, so who knows, he might need the vPro edition.

doesn't effect virtualzition at all. All it does is let you have impi built onto the board to control it when shut down.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

7 hours ago, Eeglis said:

If I'm not incorrect the vPRo is the virtualization feature, and it's pretty important for an automation student.

No, vPro is just a remote management capability, which is often wanted in enterprise environments, since it allows the IT department to have a tighter control on the institution's computers.

For a private user, is mostly useless, and most certainly not worth the added security risk (vPro is essentially a backdoor meant for sysadmins, as explained above, but is has been proven to enable malicious attacks as well).