Cheapest CPU but biggest OC on water

[Lisapete]

I fancy a bit of messing about. It's been a while from doing this but you use to be able to get a really cheap CPU but it did OC like the nuts with the right cooling.

I got a water cooling setup that using a monster HW Labs 560 with some crazy powerful fans. It's also going to in my coms room which is a solid 18c

So what CPU is it and mobo combo is good to offer such option

 

[pastymuncher]

Sadly those days are long gone now and with Intel the only overclocking to be done is on unlocked K series cpu's and Z series motherboards. With Kabylake that means a Z270 motherboard and either a i5 7600k or i7 7700k cpu. All of AMD's Ryzen cpu's are unlocked but the cheapest is a £159 quad core and they are not exactly high clocking cpu's, often hitting only 3.9-4Ghz.

Intel's socket 775 was the pinnacle of overclocking for me and it was quite common to be able to double a cpu's speed back then by overclocking.

 

[andy_mk3]

Are ytou looking for new or used? Used hardware, Sandybridge will OC pretty well in most cases and not cost an awful lot. You could probably pick up a 2500k or 2600k and push for 5GHz with good cooling.

 

[Ste]

Used for fun I would grab one of the x58 Xeon combinations. The CPUs are really cheap now (boards are still pricey but coming down) and clock very well. I had a x5670 at 4.5ghz and temps were limiting me going further on a noctua d14. 6 core. If you went mad with the volts I'm pretty sure 4.6 is achievable or maybe even more.

They are 2.9ghz standard so that would be at least a 1.5ghz overclock.