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Buying a used CPU? Would a 2500k be a reliable purchase?

Jelly

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Hey all, I'm looking to upgrade my Athlon x4 750k but the options on socket FM2 are limited-to-dire for my purposes (getting good framerates in csgo). I've been looking at used CPUs as a way to minimize my spending, getting a cheap LGA1155/1150 mobo to make things fit.

I've come across some good deals on ebay (missed an i5-4430 for £75 yesterday :( ) but some of the CPUs are quite aged by now. An i5 2500k looks to be hovering at £70-90, but those were released in 2010.

Is the 2500k worth getting used, or are there any good (intel preferably) cpus from the past few years that will be discounted to around the £70 mark?
 
Good point about the mobo cost - does anyone have some lga1155 mobo recommendations? I'm gonna be searching used boards and I'll probably overclock modestly if at all, budget around £40.

It's annoying how Google cuts out hardware articles from a couple years back - those older bits are perfectly good and cheap but I have no clue what was a good deal then vs a good deal now.
 
Troezar said:
I wouldn't pay £70 now for a 2500K and I have two of them! They are good but I'm sure you can do better with something a bit newer. If you could get one around £50 or less then I would say yes, think I paid £150 each when I bought mine in 2011.
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I'm very out of the loop for hardware; I remember the 2500k because a friend bought one way back when, and I found the 4430 recommended in an article from 2014.
I'm not sure what else represents a good deal, there's a lot of suffixes to dig through (S, T models?).
 
boosfuk said:
As somebody has already mentioned a 2500K is only a great buy if you can find a motherboard, especially if you want an overclocking one (Z67,68,77).
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This is the issue I'm having haha, you guys were very prescient.

I'm gonna either get a used lga1150 i5 followed by a new mobo, or a good used lga1155 mobo followed by a used 2500k. Just depends which turns up cheap first.

I was reading the Xeon x5650 thread as well earlier, but x58 motherboards are even rarer apparently.
 
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