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2600K recent equivalent?

spikerules

spikerules

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Hi all,
Been out of the oc game since upgrading to my then new 2600K rig. The problem being that I have has issues with said rig ever since.

I purchased the pre OC bundle of the Asus P8P67 deluxe and 2600k 4.6GHz from ocUK and have had BSOD's, temp issues etc since then. I ended up giving up on sending the bundle back for a second time and accepted that I was sent a guaranteed 4.6 bundle that was in fact was not going to get me anywhere near 4.6 stable.

A couple of years later and I am now getting VERY annoyed (it seems to be getting less stable as it ages) so I now want to upgrade the processor and heatsink (I have a corsair h20 water on the chip).

I have been out of the game since the 2600K release, so can someone please send me in the right direction? I am not looking to spend more than £300.

Thanks
spike
 
What's the main use of the PC? Do you really need 4.6 GHz? 4.4 GHz is enough for me and at that point, for gaming I would be more worried about GPU bottleneck instead.
 
Orcvader said:
What's the main use of the PC? Do you really need 4.6 GHz? 4.4 GHz is enough for me and at that point, for gaming I would be more worried about GPU bottleneck instead.
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Well I have SLI 670 setup. I am using the PC for high end video editing mainly.

Edit - Oh and I can't get stable 4.4 either...
 
Something Else said:
the current equivalent is the 4770k however I doubt you will see any improvement if you did upgrade really.
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This. Personally I'm waiting for Skylake/mount as I feel Haswell's not good enough to upgrade to.

What overclock settings have you tried? Can you at least get 4 GHz to work? Have you checked stock speeds to ensure it was the overclock causing the problem?
 
If you really want an upgrade then you could update the bios on your motherboard to the latest version then put a secondhand 3770k in
or purchase a new 3770k

You wont get a i7 haswell and decent motherboard for sli for less than £300

Sounds like your chip requires more volts as it is starting to degrade
 
Ok it looks like £300 is not going to happen. So what and how much would it take to upgrade to a Haswell and get the performance of a 2600k without doing hard overclocking? I hear AMD are coming out the gate in the GPU market fast? Is it worth waiting to see what they do next or wait for the Intel skylake?
 
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I would wait tbh.

I run a 2500k at 4.6 and it doesnt hold me back one bit.

if your chip is becoming unreliable then you could sell it on and then purchase a 3700k new or secondhand or even a 2600/2700k secondhand and bung that in.
 
you might need to tweak voltages,ect

how much cpu v for 4.6ghz?

if you look in event viewer in windows it will say what it crashed on
 
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