Would an 8th gen T chip be helpful for me?

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How are people’s experience with T model Intel chips? I’m looking at something like i5-8400T or 8500T for mostly 1080p direct plays (1 user only) on Plex and running a couple dozen containers.

I currently am on a i5-2400 (ancient) and my CPU usage is consistently 50% (plex direct play and ~25 containers) and temps hover around 45. So it works fine, I just need a little more power and speed.

My containers are pretty run-of-the-mill: media management, reverse proxies etc. There’s no real CPU-intensive work except the rare transcoding on Plex.

My worry with T chips in a 1L enclosure (like HP G4 mini) is heat and the throttling the CPU may see. Anyone have experience to share?

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“T” chips are clocked slower. otherwise the chips should be the same. for intel chips, just do a google search: “intel ark -cpu here-” for the “T” and non-T variant to compare the specs.

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I have, but specs only go so far. I’m mostly wondering if the small enclosure will cause higher throttling.

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I didn’t experience any when I had an 8500T in there with 32GB ram running multiple dockers, mainly the *arr suite and jellyfin (nvme only, no 2.5" drive). It’s an HP ProDesk 600 G4 mini…Hope this helps.