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Sandy Bridge posts :/

Zeed

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Wassup Easter coming big time.
Anyway Is it just me or anyone else is sick of those IS SANDY STILL OK threads ??
Feels like every other day some asks this stupid (By now) Question. Like people looking for excuse to upgrade 4-5 year old cpu that runs at 5ghz EZ with good cooling and expect gains in games.
I used to have sandy at 5ghz and single thread performance on it is/was still higher than what i got on Maxed out Ryzen 1700x( Not by much but still)
Only reason i upgraded was that i had 2500k not 2600/2700 and when i started encoding videos for my Rave Machine Youtube Chanel I needed more encoding power. Tried Ivy but with Tim could not even do 4.3 on my water due to temps LOL ended up with HW-E.

But for pure gaming. If i still had Sandy i would deffo invest in better GPU even freaking Titan Xp maybe would be bottle-necked but at lest after upgrading platform some time down the road would be DOUBLE GAIN :)
Other option would be investing in better Cooling like proper Custom loop that would allow me to Overclock my Sandy more. And when I would swap platform I would have great cooling to start with.


TLTR:
2600k/2700k will be good for gaming another 2 years if not more looking how slow cpu's evolve. Maybe wont offer same minimum fps like 7700k@5ghz. But in the end faster GPU is still way to go for gaming INIT?? :]


ps. Nottingham city is DEAD today like everyone is off
 
So you are telling me that sandy bridge is still ok? I thought it was accepted a long time ago that this is longer the case....
 
Sandy i7 are still solid CPU's as long as you OC them 4GHz+. 2500K's are debatable. However if I was on a 2500K i'd be looking at picking up a cheap 2600K/2700K/3770K rather than shelling out for a new mobo and DDR4 (the real kicker), unless you really wanted to do a full platform refresh for all the latest goodies (M2 etc).

Many people are looking at moving from Sandy simply because they've had them for a LONG time and have itchy feet; that's certainly the reason I went Ryzen. Not because I really needed to upgrade my CPU.
 
I am currently on Sandy also. Will be upgrading to Ryzen soon but. Seeing some hickups when I do work on Photoshop and Vmware.

Served me quite well but for the price that I got it for. Was a solid CPU:)
 
Stolly said:
Drink less sugary drinks and report back with the results
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A im on 0 sugar diet for 3 years. Note even piece of cake for birthday. No other way to maintain 6 pack.


So far only people that upgraded or want to are not using their Sandys for Gaming but also workloads.

Simple for Ryzen upgrade You can buy 1080ti. What will give You more fps when u rocking 4.8+ 2600k ??
 
gavinh87 said:
So you are telling me that sandy bridge is still ok? I thought it was accepted a long time ago that this is longer the case....
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I accepted it when the Ryzen 7 benchmarks came out... Until then it was situational, now it's pretty much across the board :)
 
Lord_ZED said:
A im on 0 sugar diet for 3 years. Note even piece of cake for birthday. No other way to maintain 6 pack.


So far only people that upgraded or want to are not using their Sandys for Gaming but also workloads.

Simple for Ryzen upgrade You can buy 1080ti. What will give You more fps when u rocking 4.8+ 2600k ??
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I bet your at hoot at parties.....
 
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Lord_ZED said:
Other option would be investing in better Cooling like proper Custom loop that would allow me to Overclock my Sandy more. And when I would swap platform I would have great cooling to start with.
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by the time you have spent money on this it would have been better to sell your mobo/cpu/ram and get a second hand 6700k setup, my cpu was £200, 70 for a mobo and what ever ram was
 
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