Nice, I plan to do the same thing on my desktop which has an fx proccessor. Linux will squeeze a few more years out of it. I already have a laptop that runs exclusively on Linux mint. I can expect 6 years out of it if I change the battery and do some dust clean up every one and half yearNever had sandy bridge. Had i7 950 which has been changed to westmere x5660. Still use it for linux mint desktop.
Every now and then, there comes a CPU worthy of legendary status.
The 2500K is definitely one of those.
So were the i7-920, the Q6600 and the Athlon XP 2500+
See this thread for a further trip down the memory lane:
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=thread...bile-barton-o-cd-q6600-g0-whats-next.2328943/
Well I'll probably buy in the new year now so I can rethink it then - I'm in no rush. 8700k's are only just coming back down to release prices and anyway most of my build went up in price in the fake black Friday sales.Probably should wait for the Z390 and 9700K developments at this point.
I wouldn't buy a Z370 / 8700K now.
I owned three of those chips. (2500k, q6600, and xp 2500+)
Great thing about the 2500k is that if you want to upgrade, you can get an i7 ivy bridge and just shove it in and get a nice boost.
It'll get there someday. Depreciation on Intel processors isn't pretty after 5 years or so. Current market shows most of used LGA1155 dual-core processors successfully touched down below $15 shipped each. Nearly no depreciation yet for Z77 motherboards for the next few years.Except that Ivy Bridge (Socket 1155) i7 CPUs still command a premium price, even used... O_O
Every now and then, there comes a CPU worthy of legendary status.
The 2500K is definitely one of those.
So were the i7-920, the Q6600 and the Athlon XP 2500+
See this thread for a further trip down the memory lane:
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=thread...bile-barton-o-cd-q6600-g0-whats-next.2328943/
Dual 300A + ABIT BP6 = legend!I've had all those CPU's and the i7 2600k as well (which is now a secondary rig for me). My first cpu for the first rig I made was the Celeron 300A which was also a pretty legendary one (just change the multiplier FSB from 66mhz to 100mhz).
I have a a bit of different opinion on the 2500k. I have huge regrets in buying the 2500k and not the 2600k. Why? Because looking back in terms of real cost of ownership the delta between the 2600k and 2500k in the resale market is essentially the same as at launch. So the effective cost difference between the 2 of them is negligible. Whereas with a 2600k I could see stretching this out even further due to certain market factors (memory prices, waiting for 8c/16t, or Zen 2/Icelake), but with the 2500k it feels a bit in limbo in terms of needing to upgrade.
Unless you are hard constrained by upfront costs I don't see why one would ever not get the highest i7 for Intel's mainstream platform if they are plan to resell down the road.
It'll be interesting also to similarly see what happens with Ryzen a few years from now in terms of actual relative value between the suggested budget 1600/1700 versus the higher SKUs.
i had a 2500k, 3770k and now a 4770k and i see no reason to upgrade really. Other than the new motherboard features.
Anyone who bought an i5-2500k (or i7-2600k) should be applauded for their wisdom. You definitely got your money's worth. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them - kept floundering along with a Phenom II during that time period.
What if I went both ways, and got both Sandys and Phenom IIs?Anyone who bought an i5-2500k (or i7-2600k) should be applauded for their wisdom. You definitely got your money's worth. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them - kept floundering along with a Phenom II during that time period.
Interesting that you upgraded between every generation from Sandy Bridge to Haswell, but stopped after the 4770K. If anything, if you got a 8700K now you would probably get the biggest increase in performance (higher IPC + clockspeeds plus 50% more cores) but I can understand a 4770K being more than enough for most people still unless you happen to run very heavily threaded software.
that's true, and i realized i was paying to have fun to build a new pc. Until i decided i was not getting much from my upgrades.
6 years ago today I trotted down to MicroCenter and got the Black Friday $150 2500K CPU deal with a $55 Gigabyte Z68 mobo... my first CPU purchase leading to my first PC build. Oddly enough, this combo still powers my main business PC today, and very likely for a few years, yet... while ALL of the other components have been replaced or upgraded, the CPU and mobo remain. And, yes, I'm still on Windows 7.
How many of you are still running your 2500K's???
I'm still running a htpc with a pentium e21?0.. I think it's a 2160, at a 50% oc. IIRC it was 1.8GHz stock and it ran at 3.0Ghz for years until the mobo died, the replacement was never able to handle more than 2.7. HD6450 video card. It's definitely showing its age however. HVEC is a no go.
retired my 2500K when 7700K released, Jan'17. i won't repeat everything that's been said, i'll only say that the thing i miss most about it is the cool operating temps due to the die being soldered to the IHS. the last of it's kind. load temps werent going over 70-75 with my beefy NH-C14. the 7700K reaches 90C even before OCing