A New Hope -2500k Edition

[TallPaul1878]

Sandy Bridge has got to go down as one of Intel's greatest ever generations. There are still people today chugging along on i5s and i7s that still don't feel the need to do an upgrade.

Coffee Lake has finally arrived and brought a core count increase but that is down to the fact that AMD have a truly competitive product on the market. Let's hope that next year we see both companies produce even more compelling CPUs and then perhaps people like OP will feel the inclination to upgrade

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

I'm sure my 2500k ate something like 1.5v or more... Loved it the little ****

Edit: found this

5.463GHz
1.656v

 

[robinbanks]

I would Think about easing off as it is getting a old chip now, The fact its been running this long with no problems is impressive.

 

[humbug]

Don't know about the CPU but nice story

 

[koooowweeee]

I'm sure my 2500k ate something like 1.5v or more... Loved it the little ****

Edit: found this

5.463GHz
1.656v

I did give mine 1.5 for a quick bench. Your a brave man going that high haha.

Mine wouldn't go past 5.2 no matter what I did to it. You must have had a good chip.

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

I did give mine 1.5 for a quick bench. Your a brave man going that high haha.

Mine wouldn't go past 5.2 no matter what I did to it. You must have had a good chip.

Temp never went above 61ºC either... Really enjoyed playing with that chip.

 

[bainbridge]

Still rocking with good old Sandybridge!

 

[Matkinson]

Still going with a 2600 @ 3.9.

Still seems to do everything I want it to do. Waiting for an 8+ core with some strong gaming increases.

 

[200sols]

Still rocking a 2600k and HD6990 I built way back. All watercooled, performance is still so good, I see no need to upgrade.

 

[Bluntwrapped]

Until someone gives it a proper test, which I don’t suppose is possible unless you can source a brand new Z77 board, I’d put my money on CPU degradation being a misconception.

My theory is motherboard components, especially VRM degrade before a CPU will.