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I've got a 25% overclock on my i5 2600k going right now using the stock air cooler that's pretty rad. And I'm not an outlier, it's normal for these chips. The

I've got a 25% overclock on my i5 2600k going right now using the stock air cooler that's pretty rad. And I'm not an outlier, it's normal for these chips. The Haswell "devil's canyon" model was reportedly also a great overclocking chip. These ~30% overclocks are still out there if you're willing to look for them. (But I believe that 50% celeron was some kind of binning issue caused by marketing). The bigger issue these days is that GPU performance matters so much more for gaming. I've had the same CPU/motherboard for 5 years but I'm on my 3rd GPU.

rasz_pl 10y ago
50% Celeron OC lasted almost all the way to Coppermines. I was building PCs at the time specializing in cheap performance. Intel BX + 300A@450 2v, later 366@550 up to 700@1000 after modding slot1 adapters for 1.8-1.9V. Switched to selling AMD when disaster called P4 came out.
seanp2k2 10y ago
Yeah, I've had a 2500k running at 4.6 stable on all cores on stock voltages since it came out. I'm only now feeling a bit of an upgrade itch. If Ryzen CPUs are under $500 for the top models I'll build my next system on their platform and get a 2nd GTX 1080 or upgrade when the Vega 11 / Navi stuff comes out.