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Intel 5960X. Best CPU ever made.
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I did mention the mobos are also 36 quid brand new for socket 2011
Not ones worth buying
Yea i get that feeling too but YouTube reviews show it to be working
Yep not enough single core performance for me to choose it over entry level alderlake etc
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Q6600 and 2600k i7 were both overclockers for me, the 2600k is still my main pc - I used to run it at 4.8ghz, these days it sits at a cooler 4.2.
I also had the cheapest amd 6 core phenom 2 which had a stock clock of just 2.8ghz mine overclocked to 4ghz with a bit of tlc for its lifetime in an Asus tuf motherboard.
I also had the cheapest amd 6 core phenom 2 which had a stock clock of just 2.8ghz mine overclocked to 4ghz with a bit of tlc for its lifetime in an Asus tuf motherboard.
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disagree, the goat of CPUs is the Q6600, 2600K and the X5670/50
I would agree. I had a Q6600 and X5650. But today the 5960x being haswell with AVX2 can run anything with no isses. The X5650 got to be a pain a few years ago (useable but a bit of a pain).
Q6600@3Ghz (most of them will do +25% overclock out the box without any adjustment of voltages) would still hold up today for general web-browsing and light to moderate productivity tasks if pared with an SSD and reasonably fast RAM, albeit using quite a lot of power to do so compared to current CPUs. It is still similar performance to the mid-range 4 core Windows tablets, etc.
You can even play many modern games on one today albeit with a lot of settings turned down.
You can even play many modern games on one today albeit with a lot of settings turned down.
agreed, anything with avx2 and aes can still be lived with today.
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The 2500k was one of the kings of price : performance
yep these days nvidia gives you the 9728 cores for under a grand in the rtx4080. bargain ehh?
They are very, very small cores though, shrinkflationyep these days nvidia gives you the 9728 cores for under a grand in the rtx4080. bargain ehh?
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another vote for the q6600, what a beast it was
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I remember the E6600, Windows XP loaded so quick.
I remember dual core being a revelation, how things have changed!
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Built a 3950X rig for a friend a few years ago- my payment was his old 5960X, mobo and RAM.
Checked Anandtech's comparison thingy, and it apparently has less grunt, and far higher power consumption than my old 2700X.
It's still sat in a box, waiting for me to do something with it.
Seems a waste, as I know that thing cost a fortune new...
Checked Anandtech's comparison thingy, and it apparently has less grunt, and far higher power consumption than my old 2700X.
It's still sat in a box, waiting for me to do something with it.
Seems a waste, as I know that thing cost a fortune new...
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yep these days nvidia gives you the 9728 cores for under a grand in the rtx4080. bargain ehh?
Expensive for a graphics card with 16gb of memory.