The Mighty i7-2600K in 2024 - is this CPU still worth $30?
Today we look at the i7-2600k, one of the most iconic CPUs ever made, with 4 cores 8 threads it was a hard hitting CPU for it's time. Though in 2024 how does it fair with an RTX 4060 vs say the budget special the i5-12400? Let's find out.
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00:00 The Budget Setup used. And testing to be done.
01:37 Specs and Overclocking
03:54 Gaming Benchmarks and Power Consumption, Robocop, Counter Strike 2, Dota 2, Age of Empries 4 and City Skylines 2.
08:47 Conclusion
11:10 Is it still worth $30?
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I had a 2700K @ 5Ghz years ago. Bloody legend of a CPU.
I have seven of them to get rid of. :D Complete 2700K systems I mean, all on ASUS M4E/Z mbds. I've kept a couple more for general tasks and benchmarking. I always loved the fact that 5GHz with a 2700K was utterly trivial just with a TRUE and one fan, good temps and acceptable noise, though I often used an H80 in final builds (with better NDS fans) for near silent running. One can even set dynamic voltage for optimal power. I typically always used GSKill TridentX DDR3/2400 CL10, set to either 2133 or 2400 depending on the proclivities of the CPU, 16GB or 32GB, though Ripjaw @ 2133 was also fine.
My CPU upgrade path went from core 2 duo to I5 2400, to I7 2700k to i7 4770k. Literally a magical time to be in PC gaming, the upgrade from core 2 to i5 2400 was absolutely amazing
right? i had to be a lil 'slummin' it' and got a Pentium 4 3ghz (LGA775 and Hyperthreaded) with a 250GTS and 4gb ram til i got upgraded to an Athlon II X2, then the X3 and paired with a laughable 630GT 2GB DDR3 GPU and 4gb ram (in 2016). I managed in one year to go from that lil rig, that with mods played Fallout 4 in Windows 7, and had the CPU overclocked on an OEM board thanks to NVidia System Tools that lets you use the nForce chipset to increase multipliers, clock speed, PCI-E 16x slot speed etc so when i got a triple core it was even better, and then i had doubled the ram to 8gb and had a 2gb Radeon 6870 slotted in and was enjoying even more til a friend dropped their dying Alienware on my lap and said to have at it. i puilled its Mobo. CPU and ram then paired it with my HDD and GPU, then within two months a friend sent me his old 660ti 2gb, and i was set. Now im still not keeping current with my hardware but im not suffering - i7-4790, 16gb DDR3, 10603gb, 120gb SSD, 4tb HDD and a 750wPSU and two older Dell LCD monitors. i did notice the jump when i went to Haswell, as the speeds all around on the hardware had improved, with the ram able to go faster (2600 is limited to 1333mhz with DDR3, Haswell can do 1600mhz) as well as the PCi-Express speed is faster (GPU is handicapped by vram but is still powerful), the CPU can turbo to 4ghz, and the only shortcoming i seem to have is some games are relying more on an SSD and my games all run off of spinning disk (both drives are 4 years old and bought brand new while the PSU in this is gently used second-hand and was with the Haswell hardware when i had gotten it). the lil tweaks and curiousities about hardware you learn along the way tends to stick with you as well (the nForce chipset thing is fun, im hoping to find another mobo like that for my WinXP Crysis build im doing now that has a 5770 Radeon in the wings awaiting it). also high five, Haswell is a nice progression from Sandybridge!
Yeah. My upgrade path was a i5 760 to i5 3470 to i7 4790k which i stayed with until about 2020.
I still have a core 2 G620 duo rig with R7 250 2gb, 500gb HDD. I use it for really old games lol.
Pentium 4 to Core 2 was the best jump. I remember being blown away going from a 3.2Ghz P4 to my Q9650.
@@Ares14We're similar but I went from FX-8120, FX-8350 and then was gifted a FX-9590. Got frustrated and just slapped a 4790k rig together when it came out and held onto until 2020. Went 10900 then 11900k from there.
Have that CPU still OC on 4.6 with rx 5700xt and still going strong!! Love it.
What a legend. Do it the respect it deserves and get lil frame to hang it on the wall behind your PC.
Ćao brate, imam isti procesor samo je overklokovan na 4.5ghz. Hteo sam da kupim istu tu grafičku al bih je uzeo samo zbog CS2 pa me zanima ako bi mogao da mi kažeš koliko fpsa može da izgura na deathmeču na dust2 sa sledećim podešavanjima: rezolucija 1280x960, MSAA x2, senke na high i sve ostalo na low podešavanjima. Ako ti nije problem baš bi me usrećio i pomogao. Pozdrav
@@djukic921 eeee brt javljam ti cim pogledam, pazi cs2 je vise Cpu intense i to na single coru, ja pikam uglavnom na 2k ali sve ostalo na low podesavanjima sem senki i u competitivu 5v5 bije od 150-60 do 200
@@Gnocke Lol ja toliko fpsa imam sad na ovim podešavanjima koje sam ti naveo ali u paru sa gtx 950 na competitivu hahaha. Nego sam primetio da je na dmu fps oko 130-150 kad se napuni server i hoće da padne i ispod 100 nekad. Mislim da je to zbog single cora i zato što nema avx2 instrukcije pa me zato najviše zanima. Tako da ako se setiš da probaš javljaj obavezno. Jel si probao možda the last of us ili cyberpunk na toj konfiguraciji?
@@djukic921 gledaj nema sta nisam igrao na ovoj konfiguraciji od Cyberpunka do RDR2 sada sam skoro presao Halo infinite, nisam pikao last of us jer mi nije zanimljiva tako da to nisam skidao, svakakooo ti preporucujem 5700xt jer za dat novac najvise dobijas a sto se tice sc2 nije ti tu nesto grafika preterano bitna jer je fokus na Cpu,msm da imas na YT i test 5700xt sa i7 2600k jedina stvar gde sam video da je i7 ostario jeste onaj warzone 2.0 i tu se mucio na momente.
Still running in on my old PC (2011)! downstairs my wife uses for playing Sims. Only upgraded to a 12600K! last year. Could not bring my self to sell it or retire it, its still going strong! - The windows PC name is OldFriend
🙂 me too, i pretty much keep all my old computers, i'm actually giving some of them new cases just for fun
@@MrSamadolfo Yea this one is still in the same case. Antec Nine Hundred Two V3 they dont make em like that these days, that case will outlive me.
Ah yes, my old CPU before i upgraded to a 13700k.
Massive upgrade right that there. Light years faster
I highly doubt that, but you made me laugh
@@vigilant_1934yes sir havin a blast with my new system after sticking with my old one for years
I had my work machine upgrade very similar. 2600k -> 12700k :)
I did something similar going from a 4790k to a 10700k. The performance jump was insane xD
I still remember my i5-2500k, absolute legend.
My first PC build was with an ASRock Z68 motherboard (mistake), GTX 560, and an i5-2500K. It worked no problem at 3.9GHz. Later on with with a Z170 prematurely, a 6600K, then stepped up to a 7700K. The 2600K might be OK, but the Z68 chipset doesn't support the stuff we're used to like M.2 SSDs, the PCIe lanes...
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That motherboard is a beast! My boss gave me his old gaming rig for work a couple years ago with exactly this combo, it’s still kicking as my living room gaming PC.
I still use my i7-2600K overclocked @ 4.4Ghz with a Noctua cooler and P8P67 Asus board built in 2010. Runs fine!
What gpu? :)
I have the same board so thats wy i wonder dont know what gpu to get:)
@@carlssonandreas661 I use an RX470 but i only game in HD (no 4K or above)...
Still have mine, running mineos for the kids, ran it with an 8800gts and then a 6990hd back in the day,. (before moving to 4790k)
My brother sold his PC because he didn't really "game"; Ryzen 1700, GTX 1650 and 16gbs of ram. 1 year later he's itching to play games, but he doesn't have a PC to game on! II always have spare parts I never want to let go of! I built him a "Spare Parts PC" and I personally liked it even more than his Previous PC build! He now has a PC with a i7 2700k (LOVED that it was just not the standard 2600k heheh) 32gb of RAM, GTX 980Ti, and a 1TB SSD! The value from older hardware is amazing, and I understand that even nowadays first gen ryzen chips are basically free from how cheap they are! BUT something about using trophy pieces of time feels so daing right! And I mean isn't it better to use these parts, over just having them in a drawer collecting dust ;) People nowadays want to upgrade PC parts or PCs as a whole , almost as often as they change phones!!! It's crazy because it's NOT needed whatsover, but the sensationalism is crazier than ever with "who will have the latest and greatest".
Love these videos. Keep it up tech man.
Tbh I was quite surprised how well the i7-2600K w/ RTX 4060 was handling Robocop at 1080p compared to the i5-12400 😱🤯. I’d love to see this pc setup put through a variety of newer gaming titles 💪🥰👍
Really interesting video ! I had an i5 2500K back in the day, with a 4.5GHz overclock. I then switched up to Ryzen when it launched. Nice to see these old CPUs still keeping up !
Just gave my PC some Tech Yes Lovin and now I'm watching the big show, with a cup of fine Yorkshire tea. It's a good day
I'm watching this video on a PC with an i7-2600k, it is paired with a Gtx 1650, 16 gig ram, and my daughter players Boulder Gate on it with a high setting
Very interesting. Thank you. Would be interesting to see the same test with a 4790K.
I remember my old 2600k. It was a beast for years. I didn't upgrade it until Ryzen came around. Oh yeah, the overclocking was phenomenal on those days.
Love this content. Best Tech Yes City stuff imo
I used mine @4.5, with optimised setting in a Gigabyte board, never exceeding the 95W TDP, so a Hyper 212 was all I needed, with temps maxing out in the high 60s when encoding (and of course much less while gaming). Loved that chip to bits 🙂. Thanks Bryan for revisiting it in 2024 🙂
i7 2600k + msi z77 set only cost 28$
This was a fun video. Comparing an i3-12100 to the i7-2600k would be cool. I would love to see a revisit of the 8 core xeon on x79. I had that cpu and 2060s for 4 years. I had an x79 board and a quad channel ram kit, so it was a nobrainer.
Thank you for this video. It lets me know my old CPU still kicks butt. I just swapped out my 3gb 1060 for a 8gb 1070. Haven't tried it out yet in games. Giving the new set up. To my nephew.
Wait, I just got a E5-2699 v4, now this. 😁 Great video!
Uh, Sandy Bridge is a legend, true, but the video is not telling the whole picture. In 2019 I upgraded from 2600k to 9700k and in some more demanding titles like AC: Odyssey the stutter that was constant with 2600k just went away on 9700k. And it is similar for many games, while average fps was pretty strong on 2600k, it was constantly microstuttering and that what showed it's age compared to newer CPU. Still, trading blows on avg fps with 12400f is mind blowing, shows how little actual progress was made decade later.
Baby steps
On the other side - a lot of 2600k could be OC to speeds like 5GHz. Same with 3770k (i ran mine @4.5 for daily).
Sometimes stuttering reduces on a fresh windows install too. So there's a lot of factors that can cause a lot of stuttering. But more cores more better for a smoother experience in games these days. A lot of games are multithread now.
AC Odyssey has the same behaviour even with Ryzen 3000 setups due to it being a quite unoptimized dx11 title. The performance gets fixed with DXVK (Dx to Vulkan), the difference in performance is mind-blowing. And the same thing happens with AC Origins and other old dx9-10-11 games, especially if you're using a new amd gpu.
hey, it's my guy! i'm rocking it still but i'm looking to upgrade because it's actually FINALLY showing its age
Still using this cpu @4.2. Personally I wanted to see you compared it with x58 besides new gen i5 because they are basically the same architecture and price/performance beasts. Great video.
I JUST picked up a tomahawk z87 motherboard with a 4790k, and sli 1080ti's for $160 It was in a MASSIVE old haf case...
The old i7's were beasts. I was running a 2nd gen i7 in an Alienware laptop up until 2017 and it played everything I wanted.
I own a Haswell i7-4700MQ laptop from 2013. Still usable to this day, it gives me high framerates on Counter Strike 2 (like 80fps), i used a pseudo 1440p CRT monitor with it (VGA is still a blessing). Since Haswell has AVX2, it can run every single current program. Now i have an i7-12700K from Alder Lake now, very niche CPU but i need it for complex works on Digital Audio Workstations.
Legendary CPU still rocking after 13 years.
Why though??
@@Tanzu15 if it still does everything you want, then why not?
It was not 13 years ago, it was 8
@@alchemicalanarchist dawg what? The 2600k released in early 2011. Can you not math?
@@Tanzu15 No it didnt. Your information is way wrong. It released August 5, 2015
Doesn't the 4060 only have 8 PCI-e lanes? And since the i7 2600k only has PCI-e 2.0, we are left with 8 lanes on PCI-e 2.0 which is a substantial bottleneck.
Yeah that's true except the games are getting near 100%, especially robocop it's virtually the same. So on a GPU like the 4060 I guess it doesn't matter a whole lot.
Yes, you are right it does only use 8 lanes.
@@techyescity it matters a lot, especialy with 1% lows and soo on.... Anyway this CPU is bottleneck for it. Anyway, you used medium settings not ultra, when this GPU can perfectly fine run Robocop in 50-60fps with them. (probably with DLSS quality) Lower settings probably allows for lower bandwidth. PCIE 2.0 x8 is like pcie 3.0 x4, which limits even rx6500xt... rx6700xt is way better for CPU like this, thanks to PCIE x16.
@@zbigniew2628 Is it really ultra quality if you're running DLSS? My opinion is that it's not.
Depending on game, in most cases the data to display (meshes, textures, shaders) is copied over the bus to card not for every frame, but before start and depending on player's movements. If some transfer to and copyback from the card is done permanently, e.g. for special effects, shadowing, ... results will go into cellar. At 60fps transfering 67MByte/frame will 100% alloc the 4GByte/s bus.
Using INSPECTRE to disable spectre and meltdown patches boosted up the FPS in CS2 quite significantly (i5 2400).
Before I upgraded a couple years ago, my system was a 2600k paired with a sapphire rx580 8gb. love that PC so much Played so much MW 2019 on that haha
Mine did back in the day hit 5.3Ghz with LCPC V10 case with build in phase change cooler. Could probably have gone much higher but didn't end up doing so. Had Maximus IV Extreme mainboard.
Such a good channel
Rocked one of these with 64gb and a 5700xt before moving to a 5900x and a 6700xt during that worldwide lockdown. Great CPU I managed 4.4ghz OC on air on mine back when overclocking could really make a difference. Nice to see for budget gaming it's still an option worth considering.
I daily drive this CPU. For me it’s now a simple part of a storage server but I did use it for FlightSim 2020 partnered with an RX580. (It’s about to be retired sadly) That was in 2020 and no it wasn’t pushing high frames and settings at 1080 but wow for such an old CPU and GPU I was impressed with it at the time. Still have the RX580, currently in original retail box. This CPU was part of my first gaming PC build, my first time building a PC!! I couldn’t be happier with the CPU and it spurred me onto bigger and better builds. I have to say, it was my prime PC for around 8 years and it’s sad that I’m about to retire this CPU. Thanks for the video and the 2600k love! 😊
I used a 2600k from 2011 to 2019, now it sits in my GF wow classic rig and crushes that haha. Great value. Back in the day many people questioned why you would get a 2600k when a 2500k was so much cheaper. Well those 8 threads really provided longevity as mine is 13 years old and still used daily. I’ve got two other 2600 chips pulled from various computers. I just can’t throw them away!
Bryan, might be interesting to cover the AliExpress 2011-3 combos at the moment around $80-$90 AUD for a 2650 V4 or similar, X99-P4 and 16GB DDR4 kits. VRM temps, feature sets and performance versus more current platforms might be considerations given their perceived values seems strong, even foregoing quad channel due to a H81 chipset. Would be keen to hear your opinion in 2024.
Funny enough, I was thinking about powering up my i7-2700k build over the weekend. It has a GTX 770 in it. It is a time capsule to me, so much gaming was done on that system.
Oh man i only stopped using my non-K about a year ago, when i had an i7-4790 non-K with its Dell XPS board included fall into my lap. I was using the 2600 with an Acer board (ive got two of them, the other has an i5-2400 and is paired with a 2gb 950gtx and 14gb mix n match ram to use with my projector) and a DeepCool cooler (underrated cheapo cooler, a tenner and you're golden) and now it's going into a nice build im doing for a friend of mine (i7-2600/3gb R9 280 w/Neimez drivers/16gb DDR3) cannibalizing her old Alienware and parts i had around. This old timer is still going strong, and i use its little brother, the i7-2600s in our HTPC with 16gb DDR3, and the Polaris 21/640sp 4gb lil purple Yeston RX550 (seriously good lil card, the size of a box of smarties, great for a SFF build snagged it almost 4 years ago off of AliExpress, got it 'free' after it came super late and i got refunded then came a week later lol), and i can do things like 4k video, play games like Starfield (Steamdeck mod pack), Hogwarts, etc and the wife has no complaints she was happily playing Baldurs Gate 3 for days on it. Sandybridge is better than wine, it ages like a War Bond!!!
I tend to just build these things for friends who want to jump into pc gaming but balk at the prices of decent prebuilts, maybe asking for a bit on the top of the cost of parts for my labor instead of flipping them. But still, videos like these are Lifesavers.
My favorite generation of Intel CPUs! Keep the budget build coming, thanks always
I ran an i5-2500k from launch to 2021 when I built my i5 -10600k system.
Damn that is long ago I was rocking a 2600K Sandy Bridge. Still have it somewhere around in it's case it came with back than. Upgraded to a 4790K in the days. Nowadays still happy with my 10900K.
i loved my i7 2500k when i dailied 3 way gtx 480.that was a fun time to be alive. laptop cpus are my jam right now, 13900hk ES and its rolling 5.5 all core at 1.24v. thing still pulls 150w
It's still running my 8 camera CCTV system. I still had it paired to a 970 and was playing games till a couple of years back.
In europe it would be cheaper to buy a new system because of the lower power draw.
When it's finally time to retire Sandy Bridge for modern gaming, it shouldn't be forgotten that it's a banger Windows XP retro gaming system.
I7 2600k vs I7 860 hahaha let the games begin
I've been keeping all my old gear. Still can't believe how good it still plays modern games.
Great video love x58 and Sandy, still great performance, Brian can you look into the polemic generated by forza motorsport's devs leaving out tons of radeon rx 580 gamers, they droped support for that card after months of releasing!! the game was running just fine since launch and now after updates they refuse to support it, look at the steam reviews and forza forums, people are pissed after playing houndreds of hours with their rx 580 and 570 cards suddently they cant play anymore because devs silently upgraded the requirements
There's just something fun about playing with older gear that was once high end and putting it through its paces with contemporary software. They can be "modest" vs current gear, but can still run decades of great software very nicely and can still cover "minimum requirements" for a lot of newer titles too.
I love older CPUs. I have an i7 4790K that overclocks to 4.8ghz on a 120mm cooler, and it does great in every game I play, BUT Escape From Tarkov.. That game you have to have extreme single thread performance, or cache. But being able to build a complete PC for less than $350 that destroys modern titles is amazing. Newegg in the U.S. sells refurbished 6650xt and 3060s for $150-$180 all day everyday which makes budget PCs a great seller over here.
I had a Sandybridge-E System for years. Absolute monster. Wasn't until I upgraded to a 2080ti that I needed to upgrade.
This channel is awesome
My first high-end CPU was back in 2011 and gave me gaming joy until its MB died in 2016. I sold it to a tech repair guy and I think it still working. The funny thing is I replaced it with a new build with Ryzen 5 2600, which was life-changing.
Awesome Vid I still offer 2nd and 3rd gen CPUs with the friend and family discount where they still find enjoyment out of them. With how cheap 2500k are and how prevalent 2nd gen intel prebuilts are in my area how could I not. But if they wanted something brand new, I would go for an AM4 system with a 5-15$ R3 1200/AF/1300X, and a cheap mobo with a nothing case and 16GB of random RAM for another 5-15$
Being the owner since new of and MSI p67-gd65/i7 2600k, I can definitely say.. What an impressive platform with long legs into the future. (13 years later) I'm still rocking a GTX 680 2 gig but can install a Maxwell GTX 970 to see how it performs. I run mine also at 4.2 ghz and higher. Thanks Brian for showcasing this Legendary CPU.
I have a Haswell laptop with i7 and it performs as well as some of my newer laptops
The 2600K is still a monster CPU in 2024. I have one running a 2k movie Plex Media Server and TrueNAS with a 580ti and 32GB of DDR2. It's a workhorse.
Good job.
i settled at 4.2ghz on mine and its a great balance of having performance and reliability , its been a stable system for the last 7 + years with no issues
I just did finish a build sort of similar to yours but with an Asrock Z87 and an I7-4770K. You got a nice score getting that case for free! Your GPU rocks compared to the EVGA GTX 1060 6GB I tossed into my build. I installed all my components into a new Gamdias Talos E2 Elite that was on sale for $54.I got $333 into it. Hey can you shoot a video on a build with what looks a white Montech case? I had a used one in new condition delivered the other day and I haven't decided what I'm going to put into it. I have more 4th gen stuff or 6th gen with I7-6700K or 8th gen with a modest I5-8400. Love this channel for the ideas and different builds and the flips. I've learned so much thank you!
I had a 2500k and a 2600k both overclocked to 4.5GHz and they were so good. I upgraded to an x79 platform with a Xeon 1650v1 only for the core count and the triple channel (used bargain). I kept that until 10700k.
My first gaming pc has this cpu with a hyper 212 evo,16gb of ram, windows 7 and a gtx 580 3gb for a while and my i7 which i still have was stable at 4.5ghz. I got a lot of milegage out of that PC and im currently rebuilding it to be a PC alongside my OP XP/Vista machine and my main windows 11 PC. These CPUs where stupid good value.
Still using a i7 2600 in 2024, upgraded my gpu thrice currently using a GTX 1660 ti. Gonna build a new rig this summer.
My 2600K was happy at 4.7 GHz all day at ~ 1.33 volts, and for benchmarking 4.9 GHz at 1.39 volts / 5.0 GHz at 1.41 volts. Happy to see this video :)
Did you overclock the ddr3 memory as well?? That'll really help boost the numbers. Bandwidth matters!!!
Ha I got my old sandy bridge in 2011. It saw 4 GPUs until I replaced it with a 3900X at the tail end of 2019. It now lives in a box frame on my wall (mobo included). Truly a historic chip.
God Bryan, I need that 1155 Motherboard. I am rocking a 3770k with a 2060 but ive never been able to overclock it because of a stock, intel board. I would love to see what this chip can do but used 1155 boards are either 100 bucks or need a full cap replacement.
I've only just upgraded from 4700K it was still fine. Boot times were a bit slow. Missing out on a few instruction sets after nearly a decade but was working well with my gtx980 which I was also sad to see go
I just used the i7 3770 with an rx 480. It does pretty well. Helldiver's 2 at 50fps on medium and cyberpunk as well. Not bad for such old cpus!!
I'd love to see you do an fx series cpu from the same Era to see the performance jump
I ve had this CPU untill a few months ago.I used it along with an Asrock P8H67 mobo , 32gb ddr3 HyperFury x ram and an Amd Rx480 Sapphire Nitro 8gb 256 bit. It did fine for me for a few years (3 or 4 years ) .The mentioned build kind of had a sentimental value to me, because it was my 1st build made from scratch, not just upgarding older parts. I ve made this setup from the ground up, on a budget, with very much patience , waitin for bargains.If you are on a very very tight budget and you want to have a taste of the newer gen games, you could still choose this CPU . The thing is, it will just make it enough to run them with no further expectations, depending on the GPU you want to pair it with. The downside in my build mentioned above, was the mobo. It did not know things as OC, no XMP , nothing, so that makes a difference, now seeing your video. Nonetheless, i ve upgraded to an Asus Maximus VIII Gene along with the "Frankenstein" i9 QQLS (i ve saw your video where you presented this crazy chip) and it was pretty much the confirmation that i needed to go along with this kind of contraption,As a side note, i remember you mentioning that it s a power hungry chip once you start pushing it ...I agree, but if you have the nerve to test it in various conditions along with XTU , you will find the sweet spot in power/temp/stability ratio (currently running 4ghz , 1.160V , 234A with a 280mm BeQuiet AIO , i get 29C idle, 75 in 100%load. In addition, i ve got 32gbb of DDR4 and the latest upgrade, a GTX 1080TI (because budget build :) ) .I can now run any game at 1080/1440 p , very high - maxxed out settings with at least 60FPS (with the respectable dips to 50, depending on the game in question) . Nonetheless, great content! TBH, i`ve been watching your content for sometime now, not obsessively, but frequently enough to have me as a subscriber :) > i really like your idea of budget builds , finding deals, bargains , stuff that is really still capable, but at a normal price , especially as i`m inclined to this way of getting hardware also. Keep up the good work man!
The Sandy Bridge to Haswell run was a great time for everyone. It's crazy how well they've aged, especially Haswell i7s.
I've built numerous 2700K systems with that very same mbd (M4E/Z), which is one of the best P67/Z68 mbds one can use for oc'ing (if not the best, the feature set is excellent). Any 2700K will do 5GHz+ no problem on an M4E/Z using just a 120mm air cooler and one fan, with good temps and noise. They can be pushed higher, but I always stopped at 5GHz. I still use two such setups for various things, though I do have another seven I need to sell off (still have all the original boxes and accessories for most of them, I don't throw away PC parts packaging). I always use GSKill TridentX or Ripjaw RAM, 16GB or 32GB, normally CL10, running at 2133 or 2400, though I found the Corsair DDR3/2400 or 2133 also worked ok. Hence, your config is definitely on the low side of what is possible, especially if using an M4E/Z. There are however two caveats with the 2600K/2700K, one of which you've already noted, ie. some games rely heavily on a single games/physics thread which means their potential depends strongly on single core/thread performance; you mentioned CSGO and similar titles, another is Subnautica, for which using a 1080 Ti I was able to double the fps by switching to a 5600X/B450. Other games though care far less about IPC, especially if one is running at higher resolutions and using more powerful GPUs, it can often push the bottleneck away from the CPU, but it depends very much on the specific game, settings, resolution, etc. A second issue is specific to the ASUS M4E/Z mbd, namely that its onboard NEC USB3 controller isn't very good, it has a firmware bug which means one can experience dropout and other issues on the related ports. The best solution is just to fit a 4-port USB3 PCIe x1 card (that's how I dealt with it, worked fine), or don't use the ports controlled by the NEC. For a time, for gaming, I switched to an Asrock Z68 Extreme7 with the same CPU/RAM and 1080 Ti, because it didn't suffer from the USB3 issue, but the mbd couldn't sustain anywhere near the same level of oc, on the Asrock I settled on 4.5, whereas like I say any 2700K will do 5+ on an M4E/Z. You're right about finding mbds, it's hard to obtain good ones like the M4E, though ironically I have half a dozen complete setups to offload. :D
Right after the Cougar Point fiasco was over, I passed up the M4E/P67 version in favor of the WS Revolution and I still regret it. I did get a RIVE board with a 3930k a year later and I have ZERO regrets.
@@m8x425 Indeed, the R4E was a great board; along with the related P9X79 WS and E variants, I build about a dozen such systems, mostly using 3930Ks, but also employing the 4820K, 4930K, 4960X and certain XEONs such as the 2680 v2. My lesser gaming rig is still an R4E with a 4930K @ 4.5GHz and GTX 980. I know what you mean about the WS Revolution. I did something similar a few years earlier when I opted for the ASUS M2N32 WS Professional to go with a 6000+, but alas ASUS later chose not to roll out proper BIOS updates to support Phenom II, which was really annoying.
I would recommend checking out recycling centers if you ever fly out to the US. I've been getting cpu, board and ram combos with coolers for 30 - 35 bucks. I got a i7 4790k, maximus 6 hero, 16gb of ddr3 1866mhz memory for 35 bucks
i got my 2600k back in 2014 Now OC'd to 4.4 ghz with a DP67BG ( bought it as a prebuilt pc with 4 Gb Ram back then) and a Monitor for only $110 US , since then got a Corsair Rm1000x used for $50 US and a 32 Gb Hyper X Fury DDR3 for $60 USD 4x8 GB Kit and recently got a RTX 3060 12GB for $230 Used. Packed it full of ssd's and Hard drives Totaling almost 20TB. Still plays everything I want to play. GTA5 , DBXV2 , Spiderman Remastered , Uncharted 4 as well as AOE4,3,2,1 ... games like The Last of US also running at around 40fps with drops into the low 30's but in my eye I'm fine with a 13 y PC getting console expierience 30fps at high settings . I also use RPCS3 and most games are playable but those first party titles are quite difficult to emulate i.e Killzone 3 ( 26+- fps) & Gran Turisimo 5 ,6 (15-20 fps)
Great video as always Bryan. Wow, these old 2nd 3rd and 4th gen Intel chips are still doing a fine job! I do a fair bit of tinkering with old systems and I have found though that it's the motherboards more than anything else that are starting to fail. I've had 2 old mobos from this era just give up the ghost lately, a 3rd gen and a 4th gen. And while the value is there for the CPUs and ddr3 ram, for me the old mobos are overpriced
All the older systems I've built recently I used Asus workstation boards and have had really good luck they seem to handle bclk overclocks and voltage offsets without becoming unstable or burning down but your right those older Gen boards are getting to much money for something that could crap out at any time I got one to run a e5 2680 v2 xeon at 3.5 all core base and 4.4 boost all core on a workstation pro board for my niece the sabertooth board I tried first would randomly crash but the pro board has been rock steady and is hardly breaking a sweat and runs the newest games without issues while recording in obs and running a virtual machine while watching a movie the things beastly for the 400 and some dollars I spent on it way better than the dell refurb she had from Walmart that cost her 350 bucks
@@79huddyI must admit I don't have much experience with workstation boards, the boards I mentioned that died were an Asrock H81 and a Gigabyte Z77. And with DDR3 now 2 generations old, I reckon the best value nowadays is a basic set of DDR4 ram with a B350 or B450 mobo and maybe a Ryzen 2000 or 3000 cpu
You're very correct about the very stable and steady clocks of the older-gen Intel chips. Even on a half-broken stock cooler, my 4670k could push good overclocks and not reach any dangerous temps.
Watching this video with my 2600K air-cooled since I bought it back when it was released with a GTX 1080, still working like a champ, no issues ever.
I have a I7 2600k been using it forever. I don’t game much but kits been an ok cpu as a daily driver. It does most things ok, I did finally upgrade and built a new rig. But still have the I7 2600k and se it to work as a miner
Had one of these back in 2011. Yes, it was amazing and along with an SSD it felt as if I didn't need a faster computer ever again (but of course I did!)
The fact we are just now starting to get to the age were processors come stock 5ghz is wild, it’s also crazy that 5ghz was possible on this chip, a true legend.
Interesting video! I wonder how the i7-2600k compares to the 2011 v3 cpu's like the e5 2680 v4. I don't have an apples to apples comparison but I do have a build with an rx 5700 + e5 2680 v4. In CS2 I got 105 average fps, 1% low of 57, and 0.1% low of 36. The 4060 is quite a bit more powerful than the rx5700 though so it's difficult to compare.
Built my 1st PC with the i5-2500k, it was such a longstanding CPU, wonder if we will have a generation that will go on as long as this one did?, as well as those Xeon's which at the time were sold for 1000's for servers.
probably not until the CPU innovation war between Intel and AMD halts. what made Sandy Bridge so special in the first place is it took AMD 6 years before they had a legit answer to Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Intel focused on efficiency and the iGPU until Ryzen came out. AMD fans might try to say the FX-8150 and 8350 could keep up with the 2600k, but it never did, Bulldozer was never close. The other thing that made Sandy Bridge so special is it was a legit +15% IPC increase over Nehalem/Westmere and it could overclock insanely higher than a 1st Gen CPU ever could. My old i7-920 could do +4.1GHz at 1.35v, and my 2600k did 4.8GHz at the same voltage.
This was my cpu until early 2021. Then I upgraded the whole pc and the new one had a 10900k.
We must be In sync this week. I just picked up a Gigabyte GA-P75-D3 with a 2nd gen i7. Turns out the bios is locked up, and I will work through that eventually. But I tested out the CPU on another older system. I was amazed at how snappy it is for being a non K variant. Even if I can't get the board up and going. The other parts from the deal were very well worth what I paid.
Surprisingly the 2600K still held up alright. I had mine overclocked to 4.6 GHz on a Corsair H70 stable. I have tried 4.8 but wasn't super solid.
Amazon has an Asus Z68 for only $165, man what a steal. Only 10 left in stock so I better hurry. You are right about wanting to buy the 2600k and motheboard combo.
I used to have one reliably overclocked at 5Ghz for many years. It was really an awesome CPU that lasted me almost a decade. The last GPU I paired it with was a 2080 Super and I was able to play Doom Eternal in 4K at consistent 60fps 😊
My first gaming PC was a Dell with the non K version of this CPU. I've only played games at 1080p so the incremental updates over the years feel like bad expenses.
I was using i5 2500k until four month ago (bought when cpu came out in 2011). Wasn't very fast, but CPU wasn't the problem. 8gb ram was a problem and I was not willing to spend ~50usd for ddr3. Nvme drive was a desired upgrade too. So I went with 7800x3d. I hope I will use it for next 10 years.
I had a 3930k for 8 years before feeling the need to upgrade. All core 4.8ghz. Absolutely futureproofed back in 2012. Best part is I bought it 2nd hand for £380. Still have it in a back up system with a 1070.
Those 2nd 3rd 4th and 6/7th gen i7s are still pretty decent for budget builds. Specially if you can find those cheap with a motherboard.
What the hell happened? Did the overlords shadow ban your channel? They didn't like your fiat toilet paper videos it seems. Best videos you've made imo Bro, time for the eepshays to wake up.
Not sure man, my channel being getting quite the beating, though doesn't bother me dude I just keep doing me! Thanks for watching.
He has been hanging his soccerballberrie thingies out there for quite a while, never a foul mouth. I applaud Bryan for showing how much we all have been sleeping.
ai overlords don't know how to sort the videos with mixed content like that. They want you to only do one type of video for a channel.(not tech and also economic content)
Legendary CPU. Used to let this beast ran at 4.4 ghz all cores 24/7 hosting torrents.
I rocked one of these until 2021 when I finally upgraded to a Ryzen 5900X system. It's probably the best CPU I've ever owned, and considering I've built computers for over 20 years and this CPU lasted a solid ten of those... that's saying something.
Thoughts on a 12700KF for £230 (GBP), brand new? Currently on a 9700k and it is showing signs of slowing down now in day to day use. Don't want to change to ryzen until the next gen comes and prices settle down on it, so Intel 12th gen is looking enough of a sweet spot for price to performance for the money involved atm. Also what's the verdict on ddr4 vs ddr5 with it?
12700KF is a pretty good, I paid USD around 217 & ship so around 231 when I bought one last year. Have a 12700KF & a 12900KF, am on DDR5. Would price the boards and ram, it wasn't much difference all my boards I went DDR5 last year. Before that had a 9600K it was stuttering in games. Have used the 12700KF & 12900KF 1440P. If it isn't much difference might go DDR5 for the i7/i9. The boards were priced identically when I bought our B760M (12400F for parent's build), 2 x Z690s, so that's let's say the ram DDR5 32 kits were around 90 USD Tean Group Delta DDR5-6000 and around 119 I believe for the Gskill Trident 6400 48gb kit. I wouldn't spend a lot more on DDR5 speed personally would get a solid kit with good timings. You would want a QVL kit for XMP, but regardless can always start at 4800 and ram tune. I think newer BIOS are better now for ram support. I flashed the boards for 14th gen in case I upgrade again at some point. If you have old DDR4 that also could be carried over though as a counterpoint. Upgrading from 9600K it was a snappier experience in both everyday, media, and gaming.
My very first cpu ever back in 2015.
Mine is the ivy bridge i7 3770 that is still running today with the mighty gigabyte motherboard.