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Fastest CPU?

Abz Hussain

Abz Hussain

Abz Hussain

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This is purely a question out of curiosity.
What is the fastest CPU available today for the regular home desktop pc - with no overclocking. A desktop PC that would get used for general browsing, email, gaming, home videos/music etc.

Not workstation CPU like the Xeons too, just regular home desktop.
Thanks
 
General browsing, emailling, typing documents, etc: Any CPU. Heck get the cheapest you can find.

Gaming: 2500K. Overclock to 4.6ghz+ = sorted.

HD Video editing: 2600K+

No need to waste money on the fastest if you can save money for other parts of the PC.
 
No overclocking?

It'd be a tie up betweem the i7-2700K or the i7-3960X.
In some situations the higher clock speeds of the 2700K will make it a bit faster, when the cores are all being used, the 3960 will be faster.

There aren't any dual cores with a noticeably higher clock than the turbo of the 2700k, and I think enough stuff uses the 3rd or 4th core nowadays ignore the duallies anyway.
 
Unless you are running heavy encoding/rendering software day in day out then a 2700K is going to be the fastest in the majority of applications.

As good as Intel's 6 core CPU's are they suffer the same problem as Bulldozer does... most software available today will run better on 4 fast cores rather than 6-8 slower ones (or catastrophically slow ones in Bulldozer's case :p).

If 2700K is out of your budget then a 2500K is the next best thing, or 2600K if it's a lot cheaper than 2700K.
 
mmj_uk said:
Unless you are running heavy encoding/rendering software day in day out then a 2700K is going to be the fastest in the majority of applications.

As good as Intel's 6 core CPU's are they suffer the same problem as Bulldozer does... most software available today will run better on 4 fast cores rather than 6-8 slower ones (or catastrophically slow ones in Bulldozer's case :p).

If 2700K is out of your budget then a 2500K is the next best thing, or 2600K if it's a lot cheaper than 2700K.
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Exactly what i would have said :) and also the 2700k would win in sheer mhz overclocks i think :)
 
Fastest i.e. mhz - appears to be the AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 980 Black Edition "140W Edition" 3.70GHz

BUT the i2700k is much the faster cpu.:)
 
AgedIdiot said:
Fastest i.e. mhz - appears to be the AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 980 Black Edition "140W Edition" 3.70GHz

BUT the i2700k is much the faster cpu.:)
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Technically not true, Intel allow you to OC (and keep warranty) to the top turbo speed. The 2500k turbo speed is 3.7, 2600k is 3.8 and 2700k is 3.9 (I think anyway)
 
Must admit that the warranty given was not something I was taking into account - Simply the stated clock speed.

But if Amd do a similar warranty to Intel then Bulldozer 8150 wins with its 4.2 Turbo ?

Would stress that I am NOT recommending anything ! or suggesting that one cpu is better than an other !!
More wondering which chip has the fastest clock speed and retains its warranty?
 
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