My Ivy just arrived along with the other upgrade bits - moving up from Q6600. I hope I made e a good choice but, frankly, a 4.5GHz over-clock will be fine.
Id say 4.5Ghz on anything is more than enough power

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My Ivy just arrived along with the other upgrade bits - moving up from Q6600. I hope I made e a good choice but, frankly, a 4.5GHz over-clock will be fine.
I only hope you that you don't end up with another "Pres - hott".
Let us know how the overclock goes - even now, there is very little information on retail overclocked IB CPUs.
the first job is to see how well it goes at stock when it ought to be cool anyway - it should be quite a boost from the Q6600. After that, 4.5 GHz will be fine for an 0ver-clock.
Have you overclocked the 2600K yet?
Im upgrading from an e6500 I had a very little budget last year and just went full out cheap... and as expected it hasn't lasted that well. Still runs yes but it's not the kind of performance I truly wanted in a gaming rig![]()
One thing I've learnt is that it works out cheaper to do one BIG upgrade every 3 years or so (ie. change motherboard, ram, cpu and maybe video card). Then you can do minor upgrades as and when.
The alternative is to do half-hearted upgrades every 2 years, which I think works out more expensive and is also time consuming (I use watercooling, so changing CPU is a major pain).
This is the reason why I went with the 2600k, as opposed to the 2500k or the 3570k (which was a cheaper option). I didnt want to take the 3770k route due to cost (an extra £60 by my calculations, last night).
Essentially people are complaining about something not being improved that isn't even a major selling point for most consumers, aswell as something that isn't entirely approved of - you're running higher than the speeds they specify, so they don't really care.
They only came out with that overclock insurance like a few months ago.
True. But now Intel are a lot more like "Well you can overclock if you want to BUT if you go over X.XX voltage you do so at your own risk" kind of idea. It's always best to stay with in the intended voltage of a chip.
Still waiting for some of my parts too, the CPU cooler has been on order for ages and was let down over the case yesterday. Mobo and Sammy Ram turned up today so the pile of parts is gradually building.