i5 7500T In A 800 G2 35w Mini

[CEG3RD]

I think people can be surprised that G3 35W can be backwards compatible with the i5 6500T. I once paid for a G3 and got a G4 by mistake which made my 6500T incompatible and I had to order a CPU or send it back. The seller insisted I would need a G2 to run the 6500T. Wrong. 

I would up getting the 90W power adapter you found. He accepted 11.99. Swapping CPU's again to see how the i5 7600 works in the G3  sounds like a pain, but in any event I have two G2's and the G3 and only 2 65W power adapters. At least now I will an adapter when I'm ready to sell it. I may come back to this post if in a few days if I decide it's worth swapping CPU's again.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Glad you were able to get the 90W power supply at such a great price. 

[CEG3RD]

I got in the 90W power adapter and the 65W G3 running the i5 7600 booted right up. I ran about the only benchmark I run other than graphical ones, BrowserBench Speedometer. I was prepared to be disappointed and get a lower score than the i3 7100 or hopefully a better one. You never know with upgrades when you expect a bump in performance and somehow you don't. I got a score 65 points higher (that's pretty big) over the i3 and i7 6700 Dell 7040 MT I game on with a decent graphics card. I was kind of shocked.

It's all good, but just like the 35W G2's I have if you put a load on it like playing a game the fan will really get going. It can handle the heat but the fan is noisy under load. The G3 has the vented cover, so the noise is not muffled. Still, most of the time it's quiet enough, though again, the vented top makes the fan noise easier to hear than on the G2's.

Anyway, I wanted follow up on the 90W adapter in case somebody comes along one day wondering.

Quick follow up the next day. I tried to run FarCry 5, which will play with much lowered rez on the i3 7100 and my overheat protection through CoreTemp put the machine to sleep in 5 minutes. Protection set at 95C.  It was actually playing better with no noticeable lag. I didn't have it running long enough to test raising resolution some. I am trying to see if it runs cooler with a SSD and not the NVME and it's hitting 85C during the install process of FarCry 5. Clearly, it will not play without being shutdown by CoreTemp. My conclusion (wondering how in the world it would run an i7) is that this machine is not a good fit for my i5 7600. I'm either going to just not use it or swap back in the i3 7100. As expected the 65W mini's just run much hotter than the 35W. Having said all this the G3 certainly isn't a gaming machine. It does seem run cooler with a NVME than a SSD, which I guess is because the SSD sat on top of the secondary cooling fan.