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What CPU do you use for your primary gaming PC?

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Q9400 right now. Slowly switching over to an i3 6100. Someday I plan to upgrade it to an i7 something.
 
2500k at 4.4. I saw a 5960x on sale for 660 AUD (450 US) yesterday and am so angry I didn't buy it then and there. Convinced myself it wasn't worth the power usage.
 
i5 2310, I got it for cheap a year or two ago to upgrade my i3 2100.
I could use something faster, but all new parts are to expensive (the things that are actually a big upgrade all around), specially now that Skylake OC is dead (and I would not be willing to get it without power saving states and being locked to Z motherboards anyway), I will not be surprised if I keep it for another 3 years or more at this point,

funniest part is my h61 motherboard, when new it was bellow your typical $40 board, but it's still going strong after all those years.
 
2600K @ 4.5 GHZ, built before they even had the revision 2 motherboards out to fix that SATA issue that was so bad they recalled motherboards for. I ended up sending 2 motherboards back and having them replaced for that. 🙂
 
maddogmcgee said:
2500k at 4.4. I saw a 5960x on sale for 660 AUD (450 US) yesterday and am so angry I didn't buy it then and there. Convinced myself it wasn't worth the power usage.
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wow. At that price, I'm so in... heck if intel priced 8 core broadwell-e at $600 I'd probably jump on one, but not $1000.
 
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i3-6100 stock @3.7 ghz. I don't like overclocking anymore. I need 100 percent reliability and stability and I hate not knowing if an error is OC related or not.
 
i7-4790K at stock. Haven't tried overclocking yet as everything is smooth as far as gaming goes. The r290x and SSD hard drives really help. Actually, I don't know how overclockable the CPU is yet.
 
OCed Core i7 5820K (4.4GHz) @ main rig and right now some Bloomfield/Gulftown systems just for fun. 🙂
 
nerp said:
i3-6100 stock @3.7 ghz. I don't like overclocking anymore. I need 100 percent reliability and stability and I hate not knowing if an error is OC related or not.
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Yeah I basically quit the overclocking business myself, these days you really don't need to OC these days.
 
Sandy 3930k @ 4.xGhz... still tinkering on the over clocking and putting it under water. Mid level gaming.

Currently waiting to see what Broad-E brings to the table.
 
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