i5-2500k replacement

[suklee]

So glad you got you desktop going again suklee. Hope it runs until it's obselete!

What's on the 2014 horizon that's a worthy upgrade to 2500k? For now the $60 board is perfect as a stopgap , but now I got the upgrade itch.

 

[suklee]

Btw, is it easy to find a replacement for this cable (which looks broken)? It's the USB 3 cable from the front panel of my Corsair case

 

[Denithor]

Very happy to hear it was just the motherboard that went poof not the whole system! Especially since you didn't really need an upgrade yet.

Concerning that plug/wire, is that attached at the other end to the front case USB3 ports? As in, directly wired into them? If that's the arrangement, might be hard to come by a replacement. First thing I would do is contact Corsair customer service, send them the photo and case model and see if they can help or have a replacement available. It might entail replacing the whole front panel assembly, which a local computer shop is unlikely to have the parts for.

If it comes down to it, you might have an easier time just putting in a new USB3 header assembly that plugs into that port on motherboard.

 

[Ketchup]

I know I had a similar part need on a cooler master case and an email to them was all it took.

 

[Charlie98]

I felt the same way with my mATX board in a CoolerMaster HAF922... I felt like I needed to put more stuff in it to fill it up.

Regarding your 212 cooler... That Vengance is a pretty tall RAM. You can actually move the fan up on the cooler and get a little more clearance, but I don't know if that would help... it's that tall. I would probably flip the fan around and make it a 'pull' fan, feeding right into the rear case exhaust fan; it's not a perfect solution (nor is the 212-series cooler) but it would probably work better than rolling the CPU heat back into the case.

 

[suklee]

Looks like the connectors are connected to a single board. Any chance I could fix the motherboard connector?

 

[suklee]

Emailed Corsair support about the broken USB connector, unfortunately my 2-year warranty had expired by a few months. Replacement part is $15 USD (acceptable) but shipping to my country is $69 USD (WTF) so forget that.

A local store can order one for me for $25 USD (much more reasonable) but will just hold off on it for now as my new Z97 mobo has 10 USB ports in the back :thumbsup:

Now where is that 4790k...

 

[Ketchup]

Emailed Corsair support about the broken USB connector, unfortunately my 2-year warranty had expired by a few months. Replacement part is $15 USD (acceptable) but shipping to my country is $69 USD (WTF) so forget that.

That's too bad. I remember building a computer for an order couple 5 or so years ago, and a couple years after they asked me to come over and look at a couple things. One problem was that the front USB connection had developed a short and every time you would plug in a device, the PC would hard reboot.

I emailed Cooler Master, and didn't hear anything back, for a while. Then one day, I got this little package postmarked Taiwan. It was the USB insert for that case.

As long as they make a case that fits my needs, Cooler Master will be my case of choice.

 

[Denithor]

Well, you obviously won't be ordering from Newegg, but check your local stores for just a USB 3.0 extension cable like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812119258

Plug it into one of your USB 3.0 ports in the back and it gives you much easier access from the front (at least you won't have to go digging around the back for items you plug in once in a while). And it shouldn't cost more than US$5-10.

 

[suklee]

Update: looks like someone at Corsair customer service escalated my ticket... and a replacement part is on its way to me, free of charge. I will have front USB ports again soon :thumbsup:

 

[Zardnok]

Update: looks like someone at Corsair customer service escalated my ticket... and a replacement part is on its way to me, free of charge. I will have front USB ports again soon :thumbsup:

Gotta love when Customer Service actually services their customers! Good job on Corsairs part and good luck getting it re-installed and running.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Update: looks like someone at Corsair customer service escalated my ticket... and a replacement part is on its way to me, free of charge. I will have front USB ports again soon :thumbsup:

+1 for Corsair

 

[suklee]

Final update: replaced the front panel cables and finally closed up my case. It was a PITA not to have those front USB ports!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Final update: replaced the front panel cables and finally closed up my case. It was a PITA not to have those front USB ports!

This has been a mildly interesting thread -- for me, anyway, since I'm still rocking my "old" i7-2600K system on a P8Z68-V Pro board.

There are certain situations (such as yours) where some consensus arises for replacing the dead part (over upgrading to a Haswell-E, DDR4 and an X99 motherboard. And frankly, that would be overkill; you'd think Devil's Canyon would be a great replacement for the i5-2500K.)

20 years of business and database programming; 12 years of teaching IT and programming to grad students; the last 10 years -- hardware and overclocking enthusiast. I'm re-evaluating my expenditures on this technology. And -- future-proof or not -- I'm going to keep this i7-2600K rig running for another four years. Even if I build an "E" system next year just for fun. There's a point where "fun" becomes a pointless waste of money, though.

 

[Sunburn74]

Agreed. I've been looking for a reason to ditch my 2600K. Can't find one in the slightest. Will just end up waiting for the next round of releases.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Agreed. I've been looking for a reason to ditch my 2600K. Can't find one in the slightest. Will just end up waiting for the next round of releases.

Even the Z68 motherboard seems "old," but there's been no change in its performance and reliability. I've got BIOS upgrade "PLCC" chips, and haven't done it -- still running version 606 from fall, 2011.

I was poking around threads here today, some for OC'ing a Devils Canyon. I just think that the safe voltage limit decreases with every die-shrink or lithography change. I'm thinking all sorts of strange things can happen the more you pack circuits and transistors closer together. "Leakage" for one thing. The OC'ing experience with IB didn't change much with Haswell -- someone tell me if I'm wrong with that.

the newer processors will have instruction-set enhancements and performance enhancing design changes. The fact that the OC'ing in Mhz seems stalled -- it dampens enthusiasm. Someone said that their expectations were "too high" with the Haswell refresh, and I don't doubt it.

If my 2600K @ 4.7 scores neck-and-neck with an i7-4770K @ 4.4 in Cinebench, it says something, or so I think.

But here's the experience I'd had since I built it. I thought it was "finished" in fall, 2011, but it has been a work in progress. I went NUTS trying to trace down the instability that would occur every ten days to a month. With upgrades in mind and budgeted anyway, I kept tweaking and troubleshooting. All the event logs eventually purged of red and yellow. After three months of stability, it happened again.

I'd kept a mental note of events that correlated to the reboot and freezes. There would be a brownout or two, and my UPS would switch to battery. then some hours later -- it would happen. finally, I looked up the CYberPower 1350AVRLCD UPS I was using, and it was obvious -- from customer reviews and CP's responses. The UPS wasn't compatible completely with Active-PFC PSU's. It would drop a cycle during the switch, and the system might crash hours later.

I replaced the UPS. The whole system had been carefully upgraded. It's "purr-feck!" And now -- I'm attached to it. . .

I WANT to build a Haswell-E system in the next year, but I'll continue to think that I don't need to do it. I'll actually have to talk myself into it when the time comes.

 

[bononos]

Even the Z68 motherboard seems "old," but there's been no change in its performance and reliability. I've got BIOS upgrade "PLCC" chips, and haven't done it -- still running version 606 from fall, 2011. ........

The push to upgrade might not just be reliability or performance but power efficiency. My Z68 used a 'hybrid' or analog pwm components and is less efficient than newer digital models and consumes about 80+ watts just sitting at the desktop with a sandy bridge cpu.