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Hmm, the article states the ten years old Q6600 won't cut it, but "Soldiering on with its undying attitude, the 2500K consistently out-edged the i3-6100 and in
by mkesper 9y ago
Hmm, the article states the ten years old Q6600 won't cut it, but
"Soldiering on with its undying attitude, the 2500K consistently out-edged the i3-6100 and in titles such as Overwatch and Total War: Warhammer, the Sandy Bridge quad-core stayed several steps ahead. Considering how heavily the 2500K can be overclocked, those who invested in this processor six years [ago] are probably still grinning today."
- Lramseyer 9y agoYep! I still have my i7 2600K running at 4+ GHz and Ryzen is the only thing that has made me even consider upgrading. You know it's bad when the Dow Jones Industrial Average is outperforming desktop Intel CPUs in annual gains.
- Nursie 9y agoHehe, I just upgraded my 2400 to a used 2700K. I have Samsung NVMe storage (though not for the boot drive), 16G of RAM and an nvidia 1070 in there. It does everything I can throw at it quite marvellously. I have no reason to change the base system any time soon, or move to a newer intel or amd architecture. (I really wanted a used e3-1290 v2 but those are still quite pricey, for an old chip)
- kogepathic 9y ago> (I really wanted a used e3-1290 v2 but those are still quite pricey, for an old chip) The price for used Intel chips is ridiculous. I bought a Dell R210 II and was looking to upgrade from the E3-1220v1 to an E3 v2 chip, but the cheapest ones available are still selling for $90+ USD (this is a CPU released 5 years ago). The retail price of the E3-1220v2 new, in 2012, was $189. Heck, the E3-1220Lv2 was $189 retail and sells today for $150! 5 years later and it hasn't even lost half its value. Insane what stagnation in the CPU market has done to resale prices...
- Nursie 9y agoYeah, the 1290v2s were still over £200, even the v1 was around that mark and the 3770k was still around £150... I managed to bag the 2700k for 100, and get 40 for my 2400. Crazy for such old chips, but then they are still good!
- seabrookmx 9y agoi7-920 in my home machine here. Maxed out at 24GB of RAM for when I run a handful of VMs. But I'm not planning on upgrading anytime soon! Handles Overwatch and pubg just fine too.
- 0x4a42 9y agoI have the same i7-920 (overclocked at 3GHz) with 12Gb RAM. I have it since 2008 and I'm not planning to replace it anytime soon.
- stephengillie 9y agoi7-860 (2.8ghz) and it's been "put to stud" as my web/SQL server, gaming server (Minecraft/ARK/whatever), and hosts my bot, from a closet in my apartment. The only reason I upgraded was to get something stock 3+ GHz, with a newer motherboard for a 1080.
- seabrookmx 9y agoMine's OC'd to 3.66ghz, but I also added a SATA3 and USB 3.1 expansion card which has helped to keep it current. I think this is as far as I can take it though. It'll never be able to boot off an NVMe drive, which I'll definitely grab for my next machine. My XPS 15 has one and there's a subtle but noticeable difference in snappy-ness.
- muro 9y agoHad the same, but recently upgraded to a HP workstation, found a decent deal on eBay. https://hardwareisboring.blogspot.com/2016/06/hp-z440.html https://hardwareisboring.blogspot.com/2016/06/hp-z440.html
- amiga-workbench 9y agoI'm still running on a Core 2 Quad and while I don't game much, I can still handle my programming and browsing workload just fine. The best upgrade you can get is solid state storage, I/O is still the biggest bottleneck.
- jplayer01 9y agoMassive grin here. Bought mine used for 100€ and it's been fantastic.