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How much life does the i5 2500k have?
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The Q6600 has been around from beginning of 2007, & it can still give a some of the newer cpu's a good fight.
You added to your first post, I get what you're saying, but I have this discussion with my friends all the time, they're console gamers and I'm a PC gamer, PC's although more expensive, last longer, when it gets to the time when consoles are as upgradable as PC's then there might be a challenge
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This is true, am i right in saying it can hang and possibly beat my 955BE is some applications? i have heard nothing but good from the Qseries chips. I have to go intel with my upgrade i feel they offer the best value for performance.
chuck it in a real world gaming situation and there probably won't be much in it, except for those 'trusty' low resolution tests, my old Q6600 I had before motherboard randomly died felt no different as a user to my mate Ryan's Core i7 machine, even though he has the 'faster' graphics card, GTX 480.
however anything encoding wise or the likes, would like to think Sandy will leave a Q6600 for dead, though Ivy won't do the same, only expecting 5 - 10% increase at best just with better thermals and power consumption. so to answer the question, the 2500K will last as long as you resist the urge to upgrade, can't see it struggling any-time in the near future with games or the likes.
however anything encoding wise or the likes, would like to think Sandy will leave a Q6600 for dead, though Ivy won't do the same, only expecting 5 - 10% increase at best just with better thermals and power consumption. so to answer the question, the 2500K will last as long as you resist the urge to upgrade, can't see it struggling any-time in the near future with games or the likes.
chuck it in a real world gaming situation and there probably won't be much in it, except for those 'trusty' low resolution tests, my old Q6600 I had before motherboard randomly died felt no different as a user to my mate Ryan's Core i7 machine, even though he has the 'faster' graphics card, GTX 480.
however anything encoding wise or the likes, would like to think Sandy will leave a Q6600 for dead, though Ivy won't do the same, only expecting 5 - 10% increase at best just with better thermals and power consumption. so to answer the question, the 2500K will last as long as you resist the urge to upgrade, can't see it struggling any-time in the near future with games or the likes.
Good post mate, how is the 8core for gaming? have Microsoft released the update for the FX chips yet?
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This
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Until Xbox 720 is released.
Remember PC gaming is just console porting these days. Spending anything more than £350~ on a rig is just laughable for PC gaming
pretty much right
It was not obsolete, it just matured later through the change of gaming engines further utilising multi-core architectures.
It's not like the Duals clocked twice as much, 3.6 or above clocks on 6600s were common.
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Literally laughed my arse clean off
my Q6600 lasted 5 years, my mates dual core bought at the same time lasted 2 and my Q has only just in the last couple of weeks been put out to pasture (for another "pointless, expensive" chip/platform)
my mate had to throw his dual core in the bin because no one would buy it for more than postage costs and I've gotten a fairly good return still on selling the Q as a system still capable of running BF3 on "high"
how was the Q not a good choice?
would agree the Q6600 was the best processor in the market at the time, it clocked just as high as the dual-cores and had the added benefit of being a quad-core with more life in it, only problem was they tended to get a bit toasty under load when clocked, know mine did anyway.
and post about eight-core gaming, it seems fine, haven't noticed any drops in performance from my 4.00GHZ 1055T as of the moment. have noticed weird situations where core usage seems to 'bounce' around between cores during gaming and such, which can't be helping performance. also the Windows patch isn't released yet, but its expected in the near future and will hopefully, in lightly threaded workloads, hopefully load every other core before issuing a thread to another 'core' in a module, should improve performance a reasonable amount in some situations. gaming being one of those situations that don't really use any more than four cores, Dawn of War II is one of the games I have installed and my operating system keeps sending it to the first few cores, literally like cores 1 and 2 (same module) as an example, sometimes it 'bounces' to the next module and so on, which I can't imagine is supposed to be happening, going to have a mess around with core affinity and see what happens sometime.
and post about eight-core gaming, it seems fine, haven't noticed any drops in performance from my 4.00GHZ 1055T as of the moment. have noticed weird situations where core usage seems to 'bounce' around between cores during gaming and such, which can't be helping performance. also the Windows patch isn't released yet, but its expected in the near future and will hopefully, in lightly threaded workloads, hopefully load every other core before issuing a thread to another 'core' in a module, should improve performance a reasonable amount in some situations. gaming being one of those situations that don't really use any more than four cores, Dawn of War II is one of the games I have installed and my operating system keeps sending it to the first few cores, literally like cores 1 and 2 (same module) as an example, sometimes it 'bounces' to the next module and so on, which I can't imagine is supposed to be happening, going to have a mess around with core affinity and see what happens sometime.
its running at 8150 speeds at the moment with a voltage drop, that is until I can fashion a cooler for my voltage regulators which are totally not cooled. getting to 4.6GHZ was simple as pie mind, there isn't really a justification on upgrading from an X6 to an FX, the only reason I did was because I was curious more than anything else! 
for gaming the X6 is still the better of the two overall, not sure how much not sharing will boost performance in those situations, should give some improvement though an exact number is hard to guess without some more messing around.
for gaming the X6 is still the better of the two overall, not sure how much not sharing will boost performance in those situations, should give some improvement though an exact number is hard to guess without some more messing around.
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Well I have the Q6600 and my son does also. I had to replace my motherboard last spring and wondered about a proper upgrade then. I didn't buy a good motherboard then, though, so I am now serious thinking of clicking on the buy button for one of the 'over-clocked bundles' on this site. The one I am thinking of, the Kryton z68 at £363 (8GB RAM) seems a good bargain - and not much over the max someone suggested for such an upgrade.
I can't see why I can't get 4 years out of the new processor - the Q6600 has gone 5 years. Mind, who knows what software in the future will need? GTA V will be out this year and I needed a new graphics card for GTA IV!
I can't see why I can't get 4 years out of the new processor - the Q6600 has gone 5 years. Mind, who knows what software in the future will need? GTA V will be out this year and I needed a new graphics card for GTA IV!
My 2nd pc that is used by my mates and nephew has a q6600 the b3 version, and its still going strong. Had that set up since 2007. Thats how long i expect my sandy bridge to last but who knows. If it does go bang hope its under warrenty.
Pretty much spot on from personal experience.
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Hoping to get about 4 yrs out of mine.