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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Intel: lol
 
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El Bandit
Mar 6, 2010

Powercrazy posted:

The computer I have is a pretty old E6600 that I built right when C2D came out. I put about 300 more dollars into it since then, and I could probably keep this computer for the next 3 years without any problems.
I'm in the same boat - I bought a E6750 three years ago, now overclocked to 3.2GHz, and replaced my old Nvidia card with a 4890 about 18 months ago. I don't do anything that really benefits from four or six cores and games still run great, so there's no need to upgrade. This build will last at least another 12-18 months.

As someone said above, the mind blowing days of going from a P60 to P266 seem to be over.

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El Bandit
Mar 6, 2010

movax posted:

On topic, I can't wait, an i7-2500 is in my future. My E6600 is choking miserably on CoD Black Ops, and I'm beginning to think it was my E6600 bottlenecking a ton of games, not a 8800GTS. (Just bought a GTX460, and I think the E6600 is bottlenecking it...)
It was definitely the 8800GTS. I have an E6750 and it runs everything pretty well with a 4890 (except Blops, but that's because it's a poorly optimised piece of poo poo) - I had a GTS 320MB before and games released two years ago were starting to struggle.

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El Bandit
Mar 6, 2010
 It looks like the 2500K will be priced at £170 and the 2600K at £250 (basically $120). Looking at the reviews, it seems the 2600 doesn't perform noticeably better than the 2500 in games. Does anything make it worth the extra money?

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El Bandit
Mar 6, 2010

Agreed posted:

Also, PLL Overvolting: Bad thing?...I can't sleep the PC (thanks Asus)
I had this problem and disabling PLL overvolting fixed it. It may limit overclocking (I've no idea), but it's worth it for the convenience.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Intel: lol