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2600k to ?

johny dolan

johny dolan

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Been a few new intels chips since i bought mine so just wondered if they are worth upgrading to and if so what cpu and mobo would you recommend please.

Thanks in advance JD ;)
 
No real point in upgrading performance difference will be minimal.

Wait and see how Haswell performs when launched next year.
 
As you will have to buy a new motherboard as well whichever way you go for the best pereformance, I would say socket 2011 (X79 chipset) with a hexacore processor, but it's not dead cheap. What do you use it for? My suggestion might be overkill :)
 
I use the pc for gaming and iracing is what i play mostly and it is very heavey on cpu but it only uses 2 cores so a hex wouldnt gain me anything so its faster cores rather than more would be better.

I know i would need to change mobo thats np but if the current chips have little or no more speed ill wait for next gen.

Thanks for the input guys.
 
nothing out there really that is a definite upgrade from a 2600k


is it overclocked? if not get a decent aftermarket cooler and whack it up :) you'll see an impressive performance gain with a clocked 2600k. I've had mine at a steady 4.2 ghz on a stock cooler and i'm sure when I ever get round to changing to a decent aftermarket cooler it will go even further
 
Its watercooled and @ 4.5 for 24/7 use and runs @ 5.2 for benchmarking.

i just thought with all these newer chips since mine came out they would be about 20% faster or so but i only swat up on stuff when upgrading and not bought anything since my parts first came out.

Also looking at gfx cards but the latest stuff hardly any faster than what i have now and would need to xfire or sli 680s or 7970s just to match what i already have or buy 3 680s to get a worthwhile gain so looks like i need to skip a gen before upgrading which is good on the wallet but im getting upgrade twitch lol.
 
2600K is still one of the best CPU's out there. So why change it?

Unless of course you do serious specialised work that would benefit from extra cores available on SBE.
 
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