How come everyone seems to have i5 2500Ks but hardly anyone with

>>59279543
I think it's considered a good value for money processor. A lot of people liked the 2500k because it could be pushed a bit past stock comfortably and wasn't a bottleneck for most users for many years.
It's also fairly reliable, which is probably why it was so highly recommended.

Thoughts /g/?

>>59279543
I bought a i5 at the time because it was like 180 bucks and the i7 was closer to 300 without that much of an increase in utility. this was a couple years ago.

>>59279543
barely any multithread support in games made anything beyond 4 cores a waste. even now there's almost no difference between an OC'd i5 7/6600k and the i7.

>>59279543

>>59279543

i7s were a higher end market back in the day and the i5 2500K was in a hallmark sweetspot

Now i7s are much more higher end i5s than they used to be while the enthusiast market shifted to another socket and platform.

>>59279543
i7 doesn't give you many gains for the money, too expensive for most

>>59279543
back then i7s truly had no impact on games. There were literally 2-3 games in existence that utilized 8 threads.

The 2600K was like 100$ more expensive, and no faster. In some games the HT was even a detriment to performance.

Only within this last half year has the 2600K pulled ahead in a meaningful way, because of more focus on threaded performance

I still have my 2500k. Overclocked it to 4.4 GHz, and even though I still have to upgrade my GPU, that old i5 is in no way a bottleneck for me.

Because that extra $100 was spent on better GPU as it should have been.

Right now it MIGHT make sense to pay that extra $100 for extra cores/threads, because of the high probability that games finally start supporting them. But that clearly wasn't the case in 2011-2012.

2700k reporting. Bought it because it was a possession and not for the price performance. 4.7 GHz OC might replace with ryzen or a 6 core coffee lale but I really need convincing.

>>59279543
Because the 2600k was 50% more money for hyperthreading.

At the time, hyperthreading made performance WORSE when enabled, not better.
So people recommended to just buy an i5-2500k instead of a 2600k and disabling HT on it.

Now days, however, i5-2500ks are still on their last legs while i5-2600ks are pretty alright since stuff is finally using HT and keeping them alive.

4.5+ ghz 2500k is still fine for 1080p gaming

>>59279593
This is true for me
also >>59280780 still holds some truth to it to this day, I honestly don't see a reason to upgrade because all I do is gaymen and nothing else I do requires any real power. All I would upgrade for at this point is pcie3.0 but even then it's not really a bottleneck on 16x pcie2.0 since I'm not spending 500€ on a gpu.

>>59279543
still running my i7 2600k @ 4.8ghz OC since 2011 - gaming and 24/7 plex server.

>>59281286
sandy bridge was the best value for money you could've gotten on a cpu ever, the stagnation of gains since then has been so depressing the "bump" you get from a modern day cpu on single threaded performance can easily be offset by an easy oc.

>>59281316
yeah it certainly has proven to be a great investment in terms of longevity, i was sure itd be dead in 2 years or so with the OC running 24/7. only just now looking to upgrade since for a similar price i can get almost 100% increase in video encoding.

It's because hyperthreading is a meme

>>59279543
It was expensive.
Didn't offer better performance than the i5
People would turn of HT on the 7 since it would OC slightly better that way.

>>59279543
i7-2600k reporting in. Bought it because why not? I was already building an expensive machine so why not go ahead and spend just a little bit more and get hyperthreading?

Kids memed it. They were stupid. When you give so much money anyway, stop being stupid and save some more and get an i7 which will not be used 100% of them sure but when you need it you'll feel like a moron.

4c/8t is a great sweet spot. The 3-4 strong cores are what's needed 90% of the time.

And 10% that the average power user need pure multiprocessing it's decent.

>2500k here at stock

Bought a 212 evo and going to overclock soon.

Whenever my fucking backordered gpu arrives.

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>>59282404

>tfw bought an i5 3570K five years ago for 223€
>went cheap on motherboard "H77 Pro4/MVP"
>two years later bought GTX770 to replace HD7850
>bought a Noctua NH-U12P SE2 ventirad as well because what the hell I might as well OC
>tfw figured out I couldn't OC at all with my motherboard

God fucking damn it. Never go cheap on motherboard guys...

>>59282638
>H77
You only have yourself to blame, there were cheap Z77s around.

>>59282735

I know. I know.

Fuck me.

This year I'll start anew. Hopefully I won't fuck up.

>>59282764
Buy the cheap skylakes before they run out.

>>59282769

Nah, I'll wait until this summer once the R5 1600x and RX Vega are all on the market and plan from there.

>>59279543
I've still got an i7-2600K, but it was a hand-me-down PC. So I wasn't the one that dropped the cash on it. Still works fine 6 years later, though.

Reliability
Overclockability
Bang-for-buck ratio.

Gotta remember this fucker is nearly over 5 years old and still going strong in some rigs, mine included.

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Why would anyone buy an i5 6600k or i5 7600k when you can get this?

>>59282638
this. the jews always stop selling boards when a new socket comes out.

>>59279543
The 2500K was 180 all the time, regularly on sale for 150, and was 100 on BF of 2012(?). The 2600K was like 300 or so. You could buy two or three i5s vs one i7 or an i5 and 16GB of DDR3, a GPU, a case, a mobo at discount (some were even free), or a PSU and a cooler. Unless you were doing a lot of encoding or something that took advantage of HT, there was no reason to get it. You have to remember that people were using P4s, Athlons, C2Ds, etc. for many years while waiting forever for Bulldozer that turned out to be terrible. People were using in some cases really shitty processors (P4) that were inadequate upon release for almost ten years really wanting to upgrade their shitboxes, and then the greatest CPU in price/performance comes out while DDR3 prices are in freefall, 80+ PSUs are available and on sale for crazy prices (Seasonic X Gold and such, not diablotek), old classic cases were cheap and newer brands like BitFenix were on discount, decent air coolers were to be had for around 20 (not 70 or more for an all copper zalman for a p4), and everybody and their mom could overclock it to a stable 4GHz (most got 4.4 to 4.5) easy. The worst problem was that HDD prices were expensive because of the flood and SSDs were still expensive. If you could wait a few years for cheap SSDs, then you were golden. Even, if you did pay 400 for an SSD, it was SLC and not MLC or TLC so you still got something out of it. The 2500K made the whole deal worthwhile. Since then, Intel hasn't released a worthwhile upgrade for most people and most people had no reason to actually upgrade. Even now, if you didn't cheap out on your 2500K machine, it's still great for most uses besides 4K gaymen, video encoding, etc. They'll probably make decent web browsing and office machines for the next 10 years.

>>59279543
I have i72600 not K.