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Core i7 2600K (p)review

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MrK6 said:
Tell the difference in what?

The i5-2500K looks good, but what happened to 4.9GHz on air? If these chips don't clock much better than my i5 750 I'll wait for the refresh.
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In games I couldn't tell the difference in my higher clocked chip without HT and my lower clocked one with HT. BUT since I could see the difference with HT on and the lower clocked chip running better in work apps vs the one without HT but a higher clock, I opted to keep the chip with HT.
epsilon84 said:
It's actually $100 for the K models, and if you're a gamer then you don't really need HT. The extra $100 would be better spent on a more powerful GPU, for example.
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Perhaps, but that really depends on the overall use of the chip and whether or not the game can utilize more than 4 cores or not.
Tsavo said:
What does HT bring to the table other than content creation and running benchmarks all day long?
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it opens freecell REALLY REALLY fast.
 
Gillbot said:
Perhaps, but that really depends on the overall use of the chip and whether or not the game can utilize more than 4 cores or not.
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Even if it can utilize more than 4 cores, it might easily not see any benefits from HT. I've written some number crunching simulations that can scale to dozens of cores, and I see next to no benefit from HT nor can I reasonably rewrite the code to do so, it's simply the nature of the problem.

I hadn't noticed any performance difference between HT on and off in anything I do, but I've noticed 5-10 degrees higher temps under load with HT (and probably higher electricity consumption, but I pay flat rate so don't care about that much). Hence I keep it off and would turn it off on i7 2600 too, so definitely not worth ~40-50% higher price. YMMV...
 
google translate didn't work well with the site, so i just picked some pages and pasted the images, SB looks pretty good so far.
 
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assuming no advantage of AVX was utilized, it looks like SB is strong for graphical applications (encoding, SCII, photo work etc), but some benchs don't see much advantage to it. I would also guess that if a game is GPU bound, then there is no point to an CPU upgrade anyway.

i wonder if a flash based drive would make increase the difference?
 
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As long as the final reviews confirm that the i7-2600K is a decent CPU and has decent gains over my Q9450 i'll be buying it.

Coming from the Q9450 i would presume the gains will be higher than 10%. That 10% gain was compared to an i7 CPU and not the old C2Qs; so I'd say it will be a decent upgrade for me. I'm still sitting on DDR2 ram as well as normal spindle HDD's so come January, i will be investing in the 2600K, DDR3 and an SSD so i can't see myself being disappointed.

I've decided to keep my GTX 295 until around may. By then we should have some pretty nice cards/prices so it should be a good time for a jump into DX11 hardware.
 
All I get is what looks like a corporate logo that says "INPAI.com.cn" which appears to be the website on which it is hosted...
Does the website perhaps forbid direct linking?
 
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True about naming, but naming doesn't really matter IMHO. Consumers just look at bigger number = better. Enthusiasts had better keep that chart handy.
 
aigomorla said:
Just got word, a friend of mine has the new illusive i7 -870S.

Im trying to get him to post a picture of it.

But its a 83W i7, and last i heard, he's getting ridiculously low temps off it.
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You mean this thing? 😛

I wouldn't call the temps "ridiculously low"... but then again the cooling isn't the greatest either. Yet.

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Not much of a performance increase, makes me feel better about my i7 purchase now. Will be waiting till at least LGA2011 for my next upgrade.
 
I don't think I'd upgrade a current i7 system to SB.

But I'm running pretty ancient hardware, and need to do a full replacement. Was going to do a X58 based system, but I think P67 will give me a smidge more bang for the buck.

Rifterut said:
Not much of a performance increase, makes me feel better about my i7 purchase now. Will be waiting till at least LGA2011 for my next upgrade.
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