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Well, the only Sandy i7 CPUs that I know of, are the 2600K and the 2700K. Maybe they came in non-K variants as well. Those might be cheaper used. Don't think that you'll find any new.
 
Why do you want / need an i7? Just to "max out" the socket on your existing motherboard?

What about junking the whole thing, and going for a Skylake i5-6500 and H170 board?
 
Such a lovely "problem" you have. You have a motherboard, and want a better CPU. Why not?

I killed my old p55A motherboard, but the i7 860 in it still works. Trouble is, I can't find an inexpensive motherboard that still works. Ah, well.

You have the opposite problem, and it's a good one. The Sandy Bridge CPU's were the last to have a soldered IHS. They can be OC'd very high. And CPU's last forever. You ought to be able to find one.
 
ehume said:
Such a lovely "problem" you have. You have a motherboard, and want a better CPU. Why not?

I killed my old p55A motherboard, but the i7 860 in it still works. Trouble is, I can't find an inexpensive motherboard that still works. Ah, well.

You have the opposite problem, and it's a good one. The Sandy Bridge CPU's were the last to have a soldered IHS. They can be OC'd very high. And CPU's last forever. You ought to be able to find one.
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How do you kill a motherboard?
 
jhu said:
How do you kill a motherboard?
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By accidentally touching a 5v line with a 12v wire. Kaput. End of a long friendship. It was my play-with motherboard. It had many a device on it. And to tell you how long it lasted: it was replaced with a Devil's Canyon mb.
 
VirtualLarry said:
By tying that superior processing power to inferior I/O buses, like SATAII and only USB2.0.
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Nothing a pair of pci cards couldn't fix.I have a H61 with just usb 2.0 and Sata 3 and i don't feel to bad with my i5 2500 in there.Started off with a i3 2100 and this was the cheapest board around at the time.Gigabyte H61M-HD2.

USB 2.0 works just fine for my keyboard and mouse and gaming headset.Sata 6 would be nice but those write speeds come in handy maybe once in a full moon if your installing a game?Could a game installer even push 300+mbps on writes?

I like to think my set up is humble,i don't worry much about bottlenecks either considering i just went 1440p. I would need a pair of 980 ti and a sli compatible 1155 motherboard before my cpu even ended being a bottleneck for 1440p if even then lol.
 
skipsneeky2 said:
Nothing a pair of pci cards couldn't fix.I have a H61 with just usb 2.0 and Sata 3 and i don't feel to bad with my i5 2500 in there.Started off with a i3 2100 and this was the cheapest board around at the time.Gigabyte H61M-HD2.

USB 2.0 works just fine for my keyboard and mouse and gaming headset.Sata 6 would be nice but those write speeds come in handy maybe once in a full moon if your installing a game?Could a game installer even push 300+mbps on writes?

I like to think my set up is humble,i don't worry much about bottlenecks either considering i just went 1440p. I would need a pair of 980 ti and a sli compatible 1155 motherboard before my cpu even ended being a bottleneck for 1440p if even then lol.
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Thinking on getting a i5 3550 for it

Perhaps a 6gbps sata pcie card
 
VirtualLarry said:
By tying that superior processing power to inferior I/O buses, like SATAII and only USB2.0.
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USB 3 is overrated, as long as you don't use external drives every single day, you don't need to worry. No to mention nehalem and sandy bridge chipsets used external controller which wasn't very reliable.
 
3770? Pitty you dont have a Z77 though. Then you could get the 3770k
 
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