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My i7 2600K build is still good 10 years on - What current CPU has best VFM over the next 10 years?
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LOL, Linus is reading my mind!
Lol "your old cpu is great!" " let's install this new RTX gpu!"
*games proceed to crash"
"ok time to upgrade your pc properly"
Lol "your old cpu is great!" " let's install this new RTX gpu!"LOL, Linus is reading my mind!
*games proceed to crash"
"ok time to upgrade your pc properly"
Oddly enough stability is the reason I dread upgrading. My 3770k never crashes.
It drives VS2019, Android Studio, Sandboxie+300 tabbed Firefox sessions, WinTV, Skype and a VMWare session, all at the same time, without issue. I do fancy a new CPU each time I see a launch, but so far workwise I don't need one.
Gaming wise the 3770k paired with a 3080 is almost good enough with only a maxed out CP2077 at 1440p showing its age. Both Control and Metro Exodus Enhanced with maxed out settings have been fantastic. In the battle of hassel vs need, I'll upgrade when need wins.
I love reading through these type of threads. Back in circa 2015 (as good as my memory can recall date wise) I bought a refurbished ASUS p8p67 motherboard from Poland shipped to the U.K for circa £80.00, a second hand i5 2500k off eBay for circa £80.00, a second hand GTX 970 windforce off eBay for £150.00 and 2 x 4gb sticks of new 1866 ram for guessing at the time was circa £80.00. Using the same cheap a/f open case, the same corsair 850 watt PSU and the same custom water cooling loop (diy drilling of the CPU block to ensure compatibility through the generations, and a pump that has lasted like the entire water cooling system in excess of a decade) I have to this day been running since my dual core e2160 system; my upgrades always place value and performance over bragging pertinent to money spent. I upgraded my 2500k to a 2600k in 2019, I paid £54.99 for it and have had it overclocked to 4.5 GHz since. The same year I upgraded from my GTX 970 to a Vega 56 Pulse I bought on Clearance from OCUK with a 3 month warranty. At the time they were selling new for circa £330.00 with 3 games, so good value. The e2160 overclocked, the q6600 overclocked, the 2500k overclocked and finally the upgrade from the 2500k to the 2600k overclocked..that was the last 14 years of the best bang for buck pertinent to CPU's.
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Wow! £250 on OCUK and a lot of cpu for that money. If only gpu's would similarly plummet in price.
i dont know where he found them for 160 but that sounds all wrong to me, if its too good to be true it usualy is
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Was it a 3600x maybe?
Chinese site. Dodgy as anything. They probably got hold of a load of 5600X IHS and fitted them to Ryzen 200G chips.
They have to some extent. Anything with 6gb or less and slower than a RX 5500 is pretty much worthless.
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Is it an ADM 5650X? LOL.
Pertinant to just my gaming a system...an 11400F running at maximum clocks on an MSI B560M PRO-VDH, with 16GB of Ram and my current O/C Vega 56 all utilizing my now almost two decade old water cooling loop, same PC case and 850 W Corsair PSU will probably be my best upgrade path. My old tech furnishes firstly the PC in my living room I use to stream games from my gaming pc to my living room TV, and secondly my now almost 30TB media server, nothing goes to waste.
Crossed out 200G with a Sharpie.
Looking at genuine prices, CPU’s seem to be increasing. 11400 are getting close to the price of 5600X now.
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In a parallel universe a 250 quid 5600X paired up with a 3060ti would be a sweet rig for the cash ....
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is available starting December 2, 2020, and you can pick it up starting at $399 (about £299)
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is available starting December 2, 2020, and you can pick it up starting at $399 (about £299)
I think the current bang for buck config is a 1600AF, B450 board and RX 6600XT. Or 11400 Intel B board and RX 6600XT.
RTX 3060ti at £299...my samsung HBM Vega 56 can fetch circa £450 on eBay. I could sell it to pay for a rx 6600xt at £399.00 and have a few quid left over..I would rather put it on a shelf in my office as a keep sake and give the greddy cnts nowt.
The 1600AF at least in the UK, is almost non existent and was even circa 2 years ago selling for the same as a 2600. I bought my Vega 56 from OCUK for £220.00 circa 2 or 3 years ago. At half the price and half the performance of the 6600XT that is stagnation. Vega 56 and similar still gives 1080p 60fps, why upgrade?
Except electricity on a intel setup lol.
I get the joke and laughed out loud, but at just circa 115 watts for my overclocked i7 2600k, its realy nothing to worry about. I can game at 1080p 60fps on my cheap a/f CPU that costs me a few quid more a year than even the most efficient AMD CPU.
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well it 'just' plays CP2077 at 1080P, nuked at 1440p where a 2070 super is 50% faster ... time has moved on ....