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2600k Price

its much better than the £lol amounts for the normal top end parts. actually some cpus have retained there value, bizarely. like my q6600 i bought for 160ish, lowest on a google search was 130, most still 160ish :o
 
Feel sorry for those that bought ocuk's chips when they were put up briefly. I think they cost like £280 and the mobos were a bit more too. Presume they will be 250 quid on the 9th though.
 
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ATIorNvidia said:
It isn't 3.8Ghz out of the box either, it's 3.4Ghz stock.
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3.8 GHz with Turbo Boost though, which is basically what it'll run at whenever it needs to.

Always confused me really, a stock i7 920 runs between 1.6 GHz and 2.8 GHz yet is labelled as 2.66 GHz. Seems kind of arbitrary what is defined as "rated speed", "SpeedStep" and "Turbo Boost".
 
FMTopfan said:
So the only difference for the P67 mobo is that is for those who already have a good dedicated GPU not to use the CPU-graphics? And what does the P/H stand for?

And besides the price, would we agree the best performing CPU is the 2600K for encoding/gaming purpose?
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H67 = IGP
P67 = Overclocking
Z68 = IGP + Overclocking

For encoding, you'll be overclocking so you want a P67 or Z68. An i7-2600K should yield a ~30% improvement over an i5-2500K due to HyperThreading so it's up to you if the price difference is worth it. As for gaming, there won't be much difference at all.
 
8igdave said:
Mine cost me £110 haha I can make a profit!
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Yep Q6600 dropped down crazy low like £110 shortly after Wolfdale launched (E8400 was also like £120 around launch) and it must be a good 18 months+ later with their value still retained.

Even my i5-750 that cost £148 16 months ago has largely retained it's (new) price, so combined with the MSI P55 launch deal it feels a lot less deprecated that your usual PC hardware.

I think the industry is stagnating slightly, we are seeing more efficient hardware come out (faster clock-for-clock, more cores etc) but reliable performance isn't increasing at the rate it once did. Clockspeed is something I find very interesting, I mean the majority are still in the 2.5-3.5ghz range, which has stayed the same since around 2004. I am not the sort of person to obsess about clockspeed or not appreciate more efficient architecture, but 7 years ago if you told me in 2011 that Intel was launching new enthusiast-level cpus with the fastest clockspeed at under 3.5ghz I would have laughed (bearing in mind that over the previous 7 years, clockspeed had increased more than tenfold).
 
The i5 cost £189.98 when it was briefly released. I still have it in my basket and it is down to £184.99 therefore I presume the 2600k is down also.
 
DragonQ said:
H67 = IGP
P67 = Overclocking
Z68 = IGP + Overclocking

For encoding, you'll be overclocking so you want a P67 or Z68. An i7-2600K should yield a ~30% improvement over an i5-2500K due to HyperThreading so it's up to you if the price difference is worth it. As for gaming, there won't be much difference at all.
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Thanks for the information DragonQ. Do you know what the actual letters mean or are they the usual codenames? At a guess, P may mean performance and H for Hybrid? What Z means I have no idea.

Yes DragonQ, I'm wanting the best CPU for overclocking with the i7 2600K and HT should come in handy for for either Sony Vegas/Premiere or Photoshop. I'm not one to go for the cheapest option and the extra performance will be noticed from my existing setup in terms of bandwidth of only 8.5GBps to about 25GBps stock of the 2600K.

I've read lots of reviews, and there was a benchmark of the 2600K compared to the stock Q6600 @2.4GHz. There was a 45% difference in framerates and was bottom for most of those benches too. In day-to-day gaming (I own quite a lot of RTS/Racing games), my current CPU ain't good enough to play games nearly maxed out and I need that extra push to make the most of my GPU. In games like Company of Heroes which uses a lot of CPU for physics/environments I hope to see improvements.
 
DragonQ said:
H67 = IGP
P67 = Overclocking
Z68 = IGP + Overclocking

For encoding, you'll be overclocking so you want a P67 or Z68. An i7-2600K should yield a ~30% improvement over an i5-2500K due to HyperThreading so it's up to you if the price difference is worth it. As for gaming, there won't be much difference at all.
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So let me get this wright! if i want to use the IGP i need to wait for the Z Mobos or get a crappy H67?
 
what i want to know is will the sandy bridge 2600k be any better running supreme commander foreged alliance than current i7 cpu's, as that is one game that quite easily max's out cpu's.
 
Yep, the best platform for video encoding would be Z68, unless Intel manage to get their QuickSync working when using a separate GPU, in which case P67 will be just as good.
 
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