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With Ubisoft and their Anvil Next piece of crap, you'd probably see a decent improvement 2500k to 4770k if you can get higher clocks.
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2500K longevity ?
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Q6600 is a bottleneck in games such as BF3.
Even with a 4.0GHz OC for example?
very rare to get a Q6600 @ 4GHz(with out pushing crazy volts and cooling solutions). 3.2-3.6 is more like it.
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Doubt any will do that kind of speed apart maybe from a select few with extreme cooling and expensive motherboards.
Normal is anywhere between 3.0ghz and 3.4ghz.
At this speed though i would think a q6600 would perform pretty well for most things.
I've seen a few around at 4.0GHz 
Though they are few and far between. Must be some fancy custom loops and some dangerous voltages keeping them happy at 4
Theres some talk about it here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18202102
Though they are few and far between. Must be some fancy custom loops and some dangerous voltages keeping them happy at 4
Theres some talk about it here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18202102
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Don't do it! Love your 2500K longer!
It is better than any £900 CPU
Also, I just remembered that mine has never been used at stock clocks. I put a quick 4.2GHz OC on it before it had even finished booting in my PC haha
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Yeah, you want to see a good performance hit from your hard earned money. I upgraded my e8400 to my current 2500k a tad too soon a year ago, as I thought my ati 6950 was being slown down by my cpu. It wasnt at all, as I had hardly any performance gain when I upgraded to the 2500k.
I was a bit gutted as I could have kept my beloved E8400 system for a few more months or longer as it was a awsome system I built for myself.
Yes, mine was at 3.8GHz and I noticed a massive difference upgrading to an i7-2600k.
My gaming desktop hs been running the 2500k at 4.5ghz since the month they were released.
Was a huge upgrade for me from Q6600.
I wont be upgrading the CPU until there are some major changes to Motherboards.. I only really embraced PCI-E, other than GFX, recently and USB3
So wont be changing that setup until USB4 ? Thunderbolt goes 100% mainstream PCI-E 4.0? DDR5,6,7?
OR...
I get the "itch" or something blows up
Was a huge upgrade for me from Q6600.
I wont be upgrading the CPU until there are some major changes to Motherboards.. I only really embraced PCI-E, other than GFX, recently and USB3
So wont be changing that setup until USB4 ? Thunderbolt goes 100% mainstream PCI-E 4.0? DDR5,6,7?
OR...
I get the "itch" or something blows up
I too have been running a 2500k at 4.5Ghz since it was released. Only bumps in the road since then have been a change of motherboard (for free, thanks MSI!) to the B3 stepping, and the somewhat complicated process of upgrading to the very latest BIOS releases.
I plan on going back to uni in September so certainly won't have any spare cash to spend on a complete system overhaul. I see my 2500k lasting a long, long time
I plan on going back to uni in September so certainly won't have any spare cash to spend on a complete system overhaul. I see my 2500k lasting a long, long time
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Which game ? I play a lot of the decent new releases on my rig (see my sig) with no problems on max settings (1080p). The ones I don't buy I usually read up on them. I've never heard anyone say the 2500k struggles before, on any of them.
Also why is it showing its age,, is it cos it cant do 100+fps anymore? Just as long as I can run games smooth at mid-high detail, who cares about fps. This is why some people ppl turn to consoles because they think that you need to upgrade pc's every few months, and this is not the case, its just a lot of pc gamers obsess over fps.
I upgraded to the 2500k last xmas and the ati 3870 about 18months ago to a ati 6950 and I have no intentions of upgrading any of them in the next 2yrs as I expect games will still run smooth enough to play on mid-high detail even then. As I had my ati 3870 for 4yrs before I upgraded to the ati 6950.
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