Locknuts on 13 February 2016
| Pemalite said: Same story with Nehalem... If you have a Core i7 970/980/990... You still have a beast of a chip... And they came out 6 years ago, overclocking one of them can put you ahead of even the Core i7 6700K in many situations. The Core 2 Extreme QX9775 @ 3.6 - 3.8ghz is still capable of pretty much running every game out there... And that is 8 years old. I still have a Sandy-Bridge-E 3930K in my secondary rig, it's still out-benches Intel's latest quad core chips, especially overclocked. (Where it will go farther than Haswell-E.) CPU is just not that important for gaming anymore once you get a decent quaddy or better, the real gains are had in the GPU. What I love about the Sandy Bridge chips is how much fun they were to overclock and how well they overclocked. |
If I spent as much as you on CPUs, I would expect them to last. My 2500k cost me AU$218. I think that's what surprises the most.
I was sure I would have had to upgrade by now.
