No one on here is actually still using Sandy Bridge, right?

>>55953155
I do 2600k @ 5.1 on water
BTFOs skymeme

>>55953179
>BTFOs skymeme

A stock skymeme could beat you, lol...

>>55953155
2500K @ 4.5Ghz core (no idea how much turbo boost adds on top of that)
According to benchesit outperforns non-oc Skylke by 10%

I was until it blew up a few years ago along with mobo

>>55953204
>A stock skymeme could beat you
except it couldn't.

>>55953155
Sandy Bridge was op as fuck. Sandy will go down in history as one of the best generations of cpu just like piii.

[email protected].
Never Gets Old!

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>>55953155
I have a broadwell-e

Suck my Lynnfield dick, 760 doing 4,5GHz without single sweat.

>>55953155
i5 2500k reporting in. Fuck you OP

2500k still stomping dicks. 4.7 on air

>upgrade
no

>>55953155
Haswell here

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>>55953155
Sorry Bruh

>>55953155
Still using a Core 2 quad desktop and core 2 duo laptop.

i5 3570 at 4 ghz on the stock cooler

fuck off shill

no, I'm still on Westmere-EP

>>55953221
Yes it would anon. Skylake is about 20% faster. Sure, it's pathetic considering how long it took, but don't delude yourself thinking your Sandy Vagina is still supreme on anything except not falling behind on gaymes.

>>55953236
Sandy bridge was the beginning of new sockets every year. Core2 was the last truly good intel generation.

I'm still on Westmere, good enough for two 970s.

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>implying not 2500k @4.6ghz

>>55953220
the same happened to me. RIP in pieces 2500k and P8P67 Pro

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>>55953155
Nah, I'm waiting on the disappointment that will be Zen so I can finally upgrade to Skylake-E when it launches. If Zen beat Fiery Bridge, then I'm switching immediately.
>mfw make -j16

>>55953258
I also have the 2500k at 4.5ghz. Whats the point of upgrading if games wont utilize more the 4 cores. I doubt that the 2500k bottlenecks my 1080. Ill gladly upgrade when the 2500k can no longer keep up, but for now why even bother.

>>55953407
If you think P67 is unreliable, try X58.

Suddenly, 24GB RAM (6.00GB usable)?
Gotta reseat the CPU.
Can't push BCLK over 200? Overclock the PCIE bus.
Turbo TDP throttling? Crossflash dat BIOS.
And my favorite, random no-POST? Increase a random chipset voltage in advanced settings.

i5 2400 stock with a 212+
I have no need to update for at least another 5 years (unless it frys somehow).

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>yes goyim u need to upgrade! your processor is shit now!

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>>55953155
>tfw 2670qm

Haswell Refresh master race

>>55953492
Your are even more delusional the usual Sandyfags.

>>55953179
>cpu-z
>bench
>run it and give us all some lul

i5-4690K here.

>>55953407
Shit, I had P8P67 Pro too

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FX-8320 here

>>55953535
>FX
Why can't I hold all these keks?

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>>55953546
fx here aswell fits my needs and I didn't have to spend my whole neetbux

>>55953508
Why should I upgrade? I just watch movies and play counter-strike (1.6).

>>55953356
What is with Core 2? How am I still able to watch 1080p YouTube videos with this T7300?? 10 year old PC could have never done this back in 2007.

>i7-2600k
>overclockan
>no chewing gum between chip and heatspreader
Damn it feels good

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I'm using Nehalem architecture which is even bestest.

>>55953579
Technololigy is stagnating

>>55953571
>>55953546
>>55953535
Are you AMD fags actually waiting for Zen (another AMD disaster)?

Will you finally switch to Intel post-diaster of Zen?

>>55953155
Okay, just give me the money and I'll get a skylake cpu.

>>55953637
I dont switch computer everytime something new is out, so I will probably skip a few generations until I upgrade


>had an athlon x2 a month ago

>>55953665
>tfw bought an Athlon 64 X2 6400+ instead of a Q6600 back in ~2008
>overclocked from 3.2 to 3.43GHz
>fastest model in the series, still pretty much twice as slow as the Q6600

>>55953705
its amazing how these processors passed the test of time, like the other anon said guess we are on a stagnation phase

>>55953705
My pops still rocking a p3 and 512 mb ram

>>55953752
The normal consumer has no reason to get bigger and better CPUs, you barely make use of the real power of it.

The next version of your bloated webbrowser is one of your benchmarks ffs.

>>55953625
I wouldnt say technology is stagnanting, we are lacking ideas to push hardware. We havent had popular software like crysis 1 to push hardware to its limits. With VR on its way in we are likely going to see another great push in hardware capabilities. That is if developers make an appealing software for VR that pushes graphics and ai beyond what we currently have.

>>55953665
>life of a amd user
>10 years behind

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Ha, of course I don't use sandy bridge.

>>55953574
You shouldn't if that's all you do.

>>55953485
well, I bought an used X58 board after my P8P67 Pro died, and used it daily without problems for a few years, then I sold it

>>55953824
To be honest, I don't really care.
Crysis 1 still has very decent graphics (and is a really good game overall) even though it's from 2007, I'd rather see devs focus on not developing vaporwave and writing better stories and recording better sounds and music.

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>>55953613
high five dude

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I'm about to upgrade my AMD A to this thing. Is it a good idea, or do you recommend a 6300 instead?

>>55953533
from what I've read on the internet, P8P67 motherboards failing isn't anything new or extraordinary

>>55953705
>dual core is half as fast as a quad core

>>55953155
>In 2017/2018
>W-why are you still using devils canyon you p-p-poorfag!!!

Yorkfield Q8400 here, not upgrading

>>55953887
if you got the money go for the i5

>>55953485
Currently have the X58 myself lmao its a fucking headache but the X5650 @ 4.5Ghz makes it worth it anon, especially since I got the mobo + CPU for $150 USD.

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>>55953155
I'm using the fiery counter part.

>>55953873
Im with you on that, but what i crave is better immersion. VR is a step toward that. I want to be immerse in world like skyrim where i can speak and interact with the fictional world and create my own story with the ai's. We have the hardware for it, but not the software.

>>55953637
Depends what you're doing really. If you're not into games or more intensive stuff like video production then you can easily get along just fine with stuff from yesteryear.

>when you realise someone who just does "general shit" on their PC can buy one today and probably use it for the next 15 years.

I5-2400 no fucks given senpai

Celeron g530
gtx460 1gb
8 gb ddr3 1333
windows 7 pro
27" 2560x1440 korean ips
dont need anything else

>>55953535
I'm using a FX-8320 too, I was about to pull the trigger on a i5 6600k but I held out.

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>>55953155
SB-E here, still using daily for work and everything else

might build an itx skymeme rig for gayming but if I upgrade for work it'll be dual xeons for muh cores

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actually just upgraded to sandy vagina ~6 weeks ago from an 8320. wanted better perf for >muh gaymes, won't upgrade until zen+ and coffelake are out.

>>55953204
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNjT5R5XI4

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>>55953613
>>55953880
yo

next stop: another GTX 970, then maybe a X5650 (MBO-limited OC, need higher multi... can reach 4.6GHz with 2 cores at x20) or a switch to X79

>>55953155
I'm using a Penryn Core2 Duo right now, when I switch to my laptop I'll be on a Diamondville Atom

>>55954359
>actually just upgraded to sandy vagina
>6 weeks ago
Nigger what are you doing? If new, then you probably didn't get it for that much less than a Skylake i5.

>>55954445
>If new, then you probably didn't get it for that much less than a Skylake i5.

wasn't new, i got it and motherboard/ram for less than upgrading to skymeme would have cost.

>>55953155
Still on Core 2 Quad here. Finally have a big boy job and can upgrade with my own money now. Might do it with Kaby Lake. Really wanted to hold out until 10 nm chips though because 10 is a nice round number and if Moore's law is going to end you might as well get the final CPU upgrades that will ever be made (kidding, kind of).

>>55954387
>it's virtually unheard of to have any component with a 5 year lifespan

There are plenty of chips and hardware that can go 5 years

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mfw i5 6600k
mfw 4.3ghz on air
mfw 53c is the highest its ever been

>>55954500
>mfw 4.3ghz on air
that's not even remotely impressive

>>55953400
>I'm still on Westmere, good enough for two 970s.

7.0 GBs

>>55953155
Netburst reporting in

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>>55953155
Ivyfag reporting with a 3570K
Like I give a pence.

>>55953838
fuck that's ancient

>>55954387
>have to overclock every piece of hardware just to even come within 5-15% of a i5 6500

lol

2500k at 4.2 ghz

Eat shit

>>55953887
>which amd A
>what do you use your PC for

better opinions if you can answer pls

>>55953155
I have a Sandy Bridge on my >4GiB meme laptop which I'll be replacing soon, however honestly the processor isn't one of the areas that I find lacking. The cooling on my laptop is so deficient that I can't even use the processor at more than like 35% load for any period of time without it overheating, so I might as well just be using a Pentium III or something.

>>55953441
There are plenty of games nowdays that utilize more than 4 cores.

If you are gaming at 1080p that 1080 is definately being bottlenecked by a 2500k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sx1kLGVAF0

>>55954596
I think that overheating happens to all laptops at a certain point. My last laptop lasted 4 years. It randomly started overheating, i striped it down to clean the dust off inside it. To no avail, it still overheated. The fans and vents were working proroperly too.

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>>55954624
All 4 of those CPUs in that video are 4 cores.

>>55954657
4 cores yes, but 8 threads

2500k and 280x here

might upgrade to a 470 or 480 soon

Just bought a GTX 1070 for my 2600k rig. I figure it's probably the last generation of GPU this rig will see.

>>55954660
Give mea i7 6700k vs i5 6600k and I might take your video seriously for more than 4 thread performance

>>55953895
mine is still running its been oced ever since I got it too.

>>55954689
Here's a 2500k vs a 3770k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZxZiksWtRQ

>>55954689
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhaB1dqYv_I

difference is negligible and to even notice you need a 120hz monitor.

>>55954624

All of this is irrelevant though. It's not like 10 years ago were games were literally unplayable with a 6 year old CPU.

Sandy bridge is still relevant if you have a 1080p 60hz monitor as you can still do 60 FPS at 1080p easily with it. The only reason I could see people wanting to upgrade their Sandy bridge is if they have a 144hz monitor for instance.

>>55953394
>Running a Sandy at 40% OC
>Keklake claims to be 20% faster than stock SandyKing
topkek

>>55954765
Then watch this video

>>55954707

An i7 brings a big increase in lowest recorded framerates, so framedips are much less common. You won't see a big difference in your average framerates because it smooths it out, but you will have a more stable gaming experience.

Now, if you are budget bound obviously you are better off spending the money on a better gpu, but to say that there is no difference between an i7 or an i5 in gaming performance in many modern games is just wrong, and the tests show it is.

>>55954772
>OC the skymeme
>your sandy lake is still behind

>>55954818
Keklake temps > Sandy temps
Sandy OCs better.

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>>55954811
Another video that illustrates my point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndWMlJeEzf8

>>55954837
>You'll drop to ~50s fps every so often
>Please pay $150 extra guys for the i7

Wew, what a joke, Crysis 3 none the less.

>>55954624
I guess i might have to look for a new mobo and cpu whenever i jump to 4k. Thanks for the video.

>>55953155
Still using 2600k in desk PC.

>hating on Sandy Bridge

Are you fucking retarded OP? Sandy Bridge is still plenty fast especially if OC'd.

>>55954867
That's in crysis 3, in games where your average framerate will be closer to 60, lets say Witcher 3 a dip into the 40's or 30's will be noticable.

Also stop moving the goalpost, you wanted proof that an i7 brings a better gaming experience than an i5, there it is.

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>want to upgrade from my Bulldozer so I can play Arma 3 with more than 20 fps
>not sure if i should get 6600k or 6700k

I'll probably keep using my 2600k at 4.6 on air until Cannonlake. I bought a 1070 a couple weeks back and there really isn't anything I can't max out at this point.

I guess I could improve my output for twitch streaming if I upgraded, but my upload speed is only 5Mbps so it wouldn't really do much.

I've built two great entry i5 2500k builds in the past year. Using eBay cpu/mobos. It's a great way to get console friends in the pc door without spending too much. Buy a cheap cm 212 evo and overclock. Good for years.

>>55954868
I highly doubt it, at 4k you're far more likely to be GPU bound than CPU bound.

You could always look for a 2600k/2700k/3770k though, they fit right into the socket of the 2500k.

>>55954919
>CAnnonlake

you mean the chip Intel said they would sacrifice performance for energy efficiency?

>>55954561
this. running two 3770's and a 3610QM

>literally no reason to upgrade

>>55953501
I know that feeling

>>55954954

I guess not then. I try to get hardware at the start of a die shrink so I can swap processors a few years later

>>55954971
Intel's going in the direction of energy efficiency now. Hopefully AMD Zen kicks them in the ass to get back on track to performance.

Just upgraded to 5820k 4.5ghz, x99, and ddr4 3200 ram. Should be good for a couple months.

>>55955068

Is that the best i7 available right now? Seems like its the best bang for its buck

>>55955086

6700k is. 5820k just has moar corez at a lower clock rate

>>55954914
6700K
Vulkan / DX12 you know.
Also better out of gaming performance.

>>55955086
The best is i7-6950X

>>55955134
and excluding the extreme line?

Thought about upgrading for years but haven't seen a reason to. i5 2500k still going strong

>>55955168
6800k is the top of the non-extreme line then. Successor to the 5820k.

>>55954914
The multiplayer will always run like shit no matter what specs you have.

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>>55954914

Are you me?

I'm in the exact same position.

As far as I know the two main differences are higher cores and hyper threading.

A3 is apparently CPU intensive so it's important to factor this in.

Although in my experience I've always had trouble with games and multi core, plus I have no idea what hyper threading will even do.

>>55955182
thanks, might be time to upgrade. $420 isnt bad for something that can get as much lifetime as my 2500k.

i want to do small size build this time around, full tower is pointless these days

Of course I'm not running Sandy Bridge, anon.

>>55953613
Mah nigga

>>55953887
Get either a unlocked i5 or go full retard

>>55955114
5820k at 4.5ghz smokes your 6700k. For the same money, you gotta be a retard to stick with a quad core for initial clocks alone. Not to mention x99, quad channel, and x99 actually has a upgrade path; 5960k, 6850k, 6950k.

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>>55954624
This retard again

>>55955233
not to mention that in 10 years you can upgrade to an i7 6950 for $200

>>55955217
A3 is all about single fast cores. Plan on overclocking to improve frames. Ddr4 and 3000+ memory helps as well.

>>55953343
i'd be sorry if i were you too

>>55955290
Exactly and the next E series has been confirmed for x99 as well.

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>>55955299

Good tip thanks, I was actually looking at just sticking with 8 gigs at 1600 mhz.

Given that a lot of people say ram doesn't have that much of an impact in games in general, what could I see from A3 specifically if I spurge out on memory.

More specifically if that is the case will I see any major improvements in jumping from 8 gb to 16?

I recently bought i5-760 for 35$, but why are 1156 boards so expensive?
>inb4 using lynnfield in 2016

I'm still rocking my i7 920, I think its the bloomfield chipset?

I still need to overclock before I upgrade sometime this year when I replace my HD6950 for gamen.

>>55955409
If you haven't realized most people repeat what others said, like the saphire nitro 480 meme that ended up being one of the worst 480s.

>>55953155
phoneposter get out pls

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>>55953155


It still works on my lenovo thinkpad and runs games still at 1080p60fps with my rx480.

It still has some life left

>>55955381
Things could be worse. Most of this machine is leftover from quite a few years ago, but it still runs most recently-released games pretty well. Overwatch has no problems, mirror's edge catalyst is a little slow, Just cause 3 runs like a dream.

>>55955409
I don't think you need alot of ram, just very fast ram. Just from a few google searches it looks like high speed ram and going from dual to quad channel helps in a3.

Im seeing 20-25% usage on my 5820k 4.5ghz at 3440x1400. Mostly 1-2 cores. Where as bf4 usage can get up to 40-50%.

>>55955457
>1366*768
Why do you hate yourself anon?

>>55955444

So I take it then that means the opposite of what I posted?

Mhz matter, but jumping from 8 to 16 surely shouldn't see much improvement right?

>>55955501
Look closer anon.

>>55953155
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz

>>55955506
Not as much for arma. As cheap as ram is getting I would upgrade capacity and speed at once, be done with it.

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>>55955235
forgot pic

>>55953533
>>55953407
2500K and P8P67 Pro here as well, only recently upgraded to 5820K and X99-A II

It's still alive though, just sitting waiting for a new purpose.

>>55955270
>for the same money
>x99
?

>>55955491

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you say quad channel does that mean four sticks rather than two?

>>55953895
>Devil's Meme
>"I can't into overclocking so I'll pay Intel to overclock my Haswell for me!"

>>55954490
He probably meant for something to be 5 years old and still relevant performance-wise

>>55955575
For x99 platform, 4 sticks is quad channel.

Should I wait for Kaby Lake?
I decided I'm just going to buy the best cpu I can afford since I don't plan to upgrade mobo/cpu in at least 5/6 years where as the gpu I can upgrade every 2.

>>55955571
5820k can be had for about 10-20 more than a 6700k. X99 board for 160-200. No one says you have to spend 600 for a x99 board.

>>55955618

Would something like this suffice?

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/16gb-(4x4gb)-corsair-ddr4-vengeance-lpx-black-pc3-21300-(2666)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-15-17-17-35-xm

>>55953155
2600K 4.2ghz master race reporting in.
used to be stable at 5.0ghz, but not anymore.

GTX 1080/6700K benchmarks are within 2% of my results.
ZERO point in upgrading.

>>55955633
5820k is 140w tdp compared to 91w on skylake too... And skylake is actually faster in games that don't benefit from hyperthreading.

>>55953155
I don't
I use AMD, hehe

>>55955655
2666 is good but for $160 you can get 3000 or 3200. Its not like you'll be buying more ram until drr5.

>>55953155
I'm still using Sandy Bridge. I don't see any reason to upgrade.

>>55955669
That's with stock clocks, again, with both overclocked the difference in games is 0. With dx12 here, those threads will soon matter.

>>55955669
>games that don't benefit from hyperthreading.

1. it's 2016
2. >games

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I put together a new build every few months in PCparts picker but can't be bothered to actually order it and build it.

>>55955669
Also who cares about tdp, poorfags? My temps with kraken x60 are incredible.

>>55955555
cool quints

>>55953155
But why would I, if it works perfectly.

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>>55955694

For me going from 2666 to 3200 is almost double the price.

Being realistic what am I going to see out of that jump? A couple of frames in a few games?

Sorry for the barrage of questions, my understanding of RAM is weak.

>>55955804
Anything that loads from ram a lot will be faster.

I started building when Ivy bridge first came out. I made the stupid mistake of buying an FX-4100 from AMD because I was almost completely tech illiterate at the time and all I saw was 4 cores for $110 compared to 4 cores for $225 (3570k).

I went from that to an fx-6300, to an fx-9370 (5.2ghz) and finally my current 6700k.

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Oh hai.

>>55955853
did you notice anything from the 9370 to the 6700k?

>>55955804
I doubt you would see any real world differences. I'm just of the mindset to buy the best you can so in 6 months you arnt asking if 3200 ram is worth upgrading to.

>>55955877
I'm sure single thread performance was leaps and bounds better.

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>>55955883

Sound advice, it's really the truth though.

I'm going to sit on my hands a bit longer, see what happens with Skylake and what Nvidia does with the 10 series.

Thanks for the advice, I won't forget it.

haven't even OC'd my 2500k yet, i'll do that when i need more performance

>>55953155
i7-3770k @ 4.4 for me on air
Probs could get up to 4.7 or so, but not worth it

>>55953155
2500k waiting for zen general

>>55955945
No problem, skylake is ok but id go with x99. You can buy into the platform cheaper on the used market and the cpu options are pretty flexible.

>Not using a Q6600
Your all just wasting money you know that right

>>55955877
oh god yes. Keeping my fx-9370 @ 5.2ghz required a stupid amount of voltage and the thing pumped out heat like you wouldn't believe. With my r9 290 xfire at the time I was still only getting 45 FPS in the new Wolfenstein. Moved to a 980ti and still only got around 55fps.

Bone stock 6700k? 290 xfire gave 85+ and single 980ti gave 75ish.

Lastly single core performance leaped through the roof. While AMD had great multi-thread, its lack of single core made it worthless for anything not encoding or HEAVILY multi-threaded games. Also my 9370 was under a custom liquid loop.My 6700k is under a single tower, single fan Thermaltake cooler, running cooler, quieter, and faster in every regard. I can hit 4.7ghz @ stock voltage.

No complaints.

>>55954988
>Intel's going in the direction of energy efficiency now. Hopefully AMD Zen kicks them in the ass to get back on track to performance.

It's not going to happen. There are no significant optimizations left to make in the x86 architecture, and IPC improvements in x86 have plateaued with no opportunity for future breakthroughs.

>>55956028
do you even play video games faggot?

>>55953155

2500K @ 4.2Ghz on air. No desire or need to upgrade unless it goes kaput.

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>>55956036

>>55956063

I'm not saying new architectures can't change that. x86 is an old invention, and a new architecture is needed to get performance scaling without parallelization.

2600K at 4.5 here. Might upgrade to Zen if it's worth it but I kinda doubt it will be at this point.

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>>55954104
My fucking nigga

I5 2400 for lyfe

>>55955804
>>55955820
>>55955883

Don't listen to these, it's a meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DdUtAZNIs

>>55953155
Up until a month ago I was still on Nehalem.

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>>55956241
>oh look we found games that had no speed boost from ram speed
>that means ram speed is meaningless

Okay friend, lets just keep cherrypicking

>>55956241
Well that one youtube video settles it

What will it take for you upgrade from Sandy bridge?

>>55956327
Zen

>>55953441
I whole-heartedly guarantee your cpu is bottlenecking that card.

i5 2520m here

>>55956378
I whole-heartedly guarantee his cpu isn't bottlenecking that card.

>>55956468
In some games it most certainly is.

>>55953535
>tfw FX-8350 with GTX 960

Still running an i7 920 at stock clock. Come at me.

>>55953887
zen zen zenz zenze nznezenznezneznzenzeneznez

ZEN

>>55956483
whole-heartedly

>>55953155
Not Sandy, but Ivy.

My trusty 3570K is running very strong. No point in upgrading jack shit. The only reason I'd want to upgrade is to get VT-d for GPU Passthrough in GNU/Linux as that works fucking amazingly on Skylake.

>>55953358
ivy fag

>>55953155
2600k @ 4.5 reportan: lol make me, goy

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Why is everyone against Intels current flagship architecture?

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I bought i5 2500k when it came out but I had to replace it with 6700k last month.

Why? My motherboard died and I couldn't find any replacement that would fit my 2500k's socket.

Fuck my life, I hope this one lasts at least 4 years

>>55953155

My Q8300 is still fine, thanks.

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>>55956666
2.66ghz

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>>55956790
I feel you anon, my board is dying slowly but my 2500k at 4.6Ghz is still strong, no replacement boards in sight, panic

i7 2600k
it only sucks that it needs that much power overclocked... 1.21GW!!!!

>>55956790
What motherboard manufacturer?

>>55956745
It doesnt provide much over the previous generation, and the overclocking is worse, so with a few hyper-specialized exceptions, the last couple of generations is more or less the same in performance.

>>55956837
Asus, it was the expensive ones.

>>55956745
Increased pricing, constantly changing chipsets with minimal overhead gains. Something from 6 years ago in the same performance bracket can easily outperform the latest generation with a little overclocking.

>>55956843
Fuck, that's supposed to be the best.

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>>55956844
This, may as well move up to more cores so atleast you feel like you're gaining something, even if it's only in your head. It's just nice seeing 6 temps listed in cpu temp. It's the small things bros.

Yorkfield master race reporting in.

Literally see no reason to upgrade because I don't play video games or make videos.

Just watch granny porn and program... And Spotify... Works perfect for all that. Yorkfield is built like a tank I swear. Socket 775 is one of the all time greats.

I'd be interested in hearing genuine reasons to upgrade if you got any.

>>55956883
It depends what you're doing. Games rarely use more than 4 cores at any given time. Stuff like processing and rendering will benefit more from increased core counts. For that, AMD has your back.

>>55956844
>>55956840

When do you think we'll start to see their chips mature a bit and produce substantial improvements?

>>55956944
This meme will die soon, dx12 is here.

>>55956944
>amd has your back
Kek

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>>55956946
When Intel doesn't hold a vast majority of the market. In Intel's mind, why should they invest vast amounts of R&D into designing and developing new chips, when they can just rehash the same architecture, give it a new name, change the chipset so you HAVE to buy a new mb and continue rolling in that market-dominance moolah. That's why everyone is rooting for AMD so that Intel can get off its butt and produce something worthwhile.

>>55956980
I wish amd could put up a fight

How long will my 3470, and 970 be good for?

>>55953407
>>55955555
>>55953533

Had a P8P67 Pro as well! Shit broke down 2 years ago...

>>55957009
3-5 years. 8 tops.

>>55957023
Hmm don't know if I'm going to be maxing out or even running games very good in 3 years, would still be good for browsing the internet I guess.

>>55957042
The 970 can still max out games at 1080p easy. In a few years, you might have to turn down the settings to Very High but still hit 60fps no problems.

>>55957007
Me too. I never bought an amd product after the phenom but now see what happened to the 1070 when amd doesn't compete.

>>55957065
Naw not really, I have to turn down settings for some games.
Doesn't run everything at steady 60 FPS.

>>55957065
Is it overkill if I plan on buying a GTX 1180 when it comes out and play at 1080p? I might almost never upgrade.

>>55953155
4.5ghz 2500k still doing just fine.

Why would I upgrade?

>>55956993

Well that sucks, maybe we'll see something like what the 4690k but in this architecture.

This is what I'm banking on, an Nvidia 10 series that achieves what the 980 Ti did and the same for the chip I just mentioned.

We're they flukes or did they overproduce something by accident? Will they be more careful from now on not to give us super good shit?

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>>55953613
>>55954390
>>55953880
My negros.

My dad still has has a 2500K.
I'm targetting Cannonlake-X or Zen+ for an upgrade, but I don't think he'll be upgrading until well after that.

>>55957156
I'm hopeful for zen myself, might finally give me something worth switching my 2500k for.

>>55953155
You dug your own grave on this one Chaim. My Bloomfield i7 is going to be a decade old soon and there's literally no reason for an upgrade on the horizon.

>>55957179
>literally no reason to upgrade
>not buying a Xeon for that sweet die shrink hexacore action

>>55957201
For gayming though, high clock speed is pretty nice and very few games seem to use more than 4 cores.

Hell, if not for gaming my Phenom II laptop or core2duo media PC are still fine, literally the only thing I do that requires any sort of CPU horsepower is videogames.

>>55957117
Time to upgrade your monitor. Could be happy with 1440p with a 970 in my opinion.

>>55953395
nigga what, the first gen i7, especially the 920, were extremely well regarded. Intel hasn't had any serious missteps in over a decade.

>>55957117
"when it comes out"

Please kill yourself. Why even fucking bother asking a question about some product over two years away?

>>55957224
>very few games seem to use more than 4 cores
They're not that few nowadays, but clock frequency (in combination with IPC) is definitely more important if you have at least 4 cores.

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>>55953155
NetBurst here

>>55957201
>>55957224
Speaking of which... Is there a reason to upgrade your computer if you don't play games? Like any legit reasons to justify the price?

One I can think of is the power efficiency. Newer stuff runs better and requires less resources. Take for example the 400 series GTX house fire cards and the 700 series GTX cards.

>>55957282
There are reasons, they're just not things I really do.

As far as power efficiency goes, that's not really much of a concern for me either as the savings on power would take years to outstrip the cost of replacement.

The only thing that does tempt me is the smaller physical dimensions that can now be achieved when building SFF media centers, but it's currently not enough to convince me to invest in an upgrade.

>>55957282
SATA 3 and USB 3 would be nice to have.

>>55957224
>high clock speed is pretty nice and very few games seem to use more than 4 cores.
32nm > 45nm for overclocking, even with 2 additional cores. More games are starting to utilize >4 cores. X5650 vs. i7 920 both clocked at 2.66GHz is a nearly 10fps improvement in Novigrad in TW3 (big city, most CPU intensive part of the game). DX12 and Vulkan should improve things on that front as well.

>>55957282
You don't even necessarily need a GPU on a modern build if you don't game. Your overall "quality of life" on a modern CPU/SSD versus one from two generations ago will make a real difference in "quality of life" which is not easily quantifiable by benchmarks.

Your machine may also not be powerful enough to drive 4k streams or multiple 1080p streams etc. Un/zipping files will be noticeably faster.

If you don't have any issues with your current machine then you shouldn't feel obligated to upgrade. However, an upgrade can sometimes be like a new pair of glasses: you don't know that anything is missing until it's back again.

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Yeah...

>>55957383
>However, an upgrade can sometimes be like a new pair of glasses: you don't know that anything is missing until it's back again.

Nah, not in this case. I have an i7 920 at home, brand new Xeon at work, not a lick of difference between the two for my daily work.

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MASTER RACE

>>55953155
stop trying to push new architectures... broadwell is the last of a breed

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>>55957492
oh fuck off with this sandymeme

>>55956327
Twice the performance for half the price. Also better be more power efficient.

3570K here, no need to upgrade.

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>>55957492
>GTX 960

>>55957642
>cucklake

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>>55957642
>not being part of the glorious Sandy Bridge generation

kys

>>55953155
I'm still using Gulftown. Tell me how poor I am.

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/229582

Intel Sandy Bridge i7-2600K
the most future proof purchase i ever made

I still use Wolfdale, faggot.

>>55953535
>tfw athlon ii x3 435
At least it was free.

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>>55957492
>implying Haswell isn't the best
With prime 95 load no less.

I'm still on a Nehalem. Motherfucking i7-920 all the way to the bank.
Only thing that might drive me to upgrade at long last is AES-NI, as these days I encrypt all of my drives, and with multiple SSDs it does tax my CPU a bit unnecessarily pulling encrypted data from one and writing it to another.

>>55959426
>people actually help for the Xeon meme

>>55953574
is public cs 1.6 still a thing?

>>55959560
Xeon are great. I don't understand why anyone would buy an i7.

just upgraded to 2500k
feels good

>>55953637
I will stay on FX8350 as long as it runs everything just fine for me

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>tfw fx-6300 with a r270x

End me.

>>55953343
>Running WD Blues

what's the matter intel shill? skyshit sales not meeting expectations?

>>55960115
Welcome to 2011

Still using an i3-2100 I bought in 2011

Literally more than good enough for 100% of my needs.

There's just not as much reason to upgrade like there used to be.

It used to be5 years and your CPU was garbage but at this point it's just whatever

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>>55960641
thanks

Will Sandy Bridge go down as the best CPU architecture of all time?

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>>55953155
>tfw skylake 6400 and are probably worse than snady

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Glad I'm not on Sandy Bridge.

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I should upgrade soon..... but not anytime soon.. :D

>>55960719
an i5 4460 is the same as a stock clocks 2500k
The i3 6100 can match the i5 4460.

The 2500k only wins because it can OC really high.

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>>55957642
>1.360 V
You can't make this shit up

>>55960778
I appreciate your optimism
you made me feel better about my terrible purchase and are truly a shining diamond amongst a sea of shit

>>55960739
try bsel mod
google it
you need 1333 fsb motherboard

i5 2500k and I don't need to upgrade.

>>55960824
If youve got a i3 6100 and a motherboard with the bios that can allow for non-k oc you could probably leave the 2500K behind but it will be game based.

is e2180 good cpu?
p4 feels a little bit slow
i want to enjow dual core technology

>>55960829
What's the advantage of doing that bsel mod thing over just increasing the FSB in the BIOS?

>>55960956
idk

>tfw i7 3770k
And when do i have to upgrade?
>inb4 never

>>55960840
This
Even if it is a i3
It is pretty good,right?

>>55960856
Its near bottom of the barrel Conroe tech, but compared to Netburst it will beat the shit out of it.

I should know, I had a Pentium D 945 and a Celeron Dual Core E1400, and the Celeron matched if not beat the Pentium D while using a fraction of the power.

Goddamn Netburst was such a shitshow.

>>55960956
It fools the chipset into thinking the CPU is requesting the 1333mhz FSB instead of the 1066mhz FSB, and adjusts all clocks accordingly, including the baseclock. It, in essence, forces a 600mhz overclock on the core for free without throwing anything else out of alignment.

>>55953155
I'm still using Nhilium

>>55953204
>>55954565
Single thread performance is barely any better.
> implying we have properly threaded programs in 2016

>>55959236
You can always buy a Phenom X6 used for cheap...

Every other CPU that came out since then from AMD sucks ass, so just wait for Zen or use a Phenom.

[email protected]
I got it along with a p67 mobo for like £80 earlier in the year.

>>55960840
>>55960997
Top kek
Stop kidding yourselves.
You realise that there a performance increase of something like 10% over the previous generation right?
So even the current gen i5 2500k equivalent only performs about 1.4 times better. The i3 will be fucking t r a s h.

>>55955233
If money is a concern, Broadwell-E is kinda bad. More expensive than Haswell-E for negligible improvements.

>>55953155
NEHALEM MASTER RACE

>not having 12 core 2670 for $60

>>55961366
8 core you dolt. SB-E never was made in core counts higher than 8.

>>55953155
I can't remember what sites in particular, but I found some places that had done benchmarks of both the 2600K and 6700K clocked at either 4 or 4.5, and the difference in framerate clock-for-clock was like 13% on average. I'm not spending £500 for a 13% upgrade lmao. Not to mention, half the games I play I get 100-144fps at 1440p anyway.

Nigga, I'm still rocking a [email protected] GHz since 2007. And I won't update until Zen is out.

>>55961282
In multicore application but not in gayms

>>55953155
i5 2500k reporting in.
Cruising this summer with open top 4.7ghz@57c@any game @1440p@75hz.
I was bough back in 2012 and I aim to please until 2021 just to fuck with ya all.
Im cooled with llcc120 and a5.
Looking good, feelin good, ill stay around until all Lakememes are gone and intel stops fucking around and actually release an cpu that will kick AMD so hard inthe balls they will actually wake up and make an competent cpu so the race starts again.

>>55961447
FUCK OFF WITH YOUR GAMES
You bought an i3 like a retard, and I bet everyone involved in shipping it to you laughed and put your name down on their personal 'retard' lists.
If someone laughs near you on a bus in the future, it's probably because you bought an i3.

>>55961463
Not an argument
>>>/trash/

>>55961282
1.4'1.3=1.82. So Skylake i3 will be about 10% worse than sandy bridge i5 in the worst case scenario.

>>55953282
Same not running as high

Bought in 2011 power supply died months later and just slapped a new one it and runs like a beauty

>>55954387
>ignore the lower tdp and thus lower heat on 1151
>ignore how much more efficient and higher clocked ddr4 is
>ignore that socket 1151 has 5 more years of support

wow i hate skylake now. better stick with that dead socket and obsolete standards.

>tfw when running dual e5-2670s and 64gb ram

Preddy awesome, desu

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>>55953155
The fuck are you talking about?

>>55953155
Quality thread right there.
Kill yourself