Best bang for the buck overclockable Intel chip?

[Toro 45]

I'm looking for the best bang for the the buck i5 or i7 chip that overclocks well. Price limit would be around $200 for the cpu and $100-$130 for the mobo. I've been building for years but I'm just not up to speed on the new chips. I'm not against buying used if the savings are there.

I built up an i5-4670k combo for my son a while back that clocked well. I think he paid about $330.00 for for deal. I'm just looking for the best performance I can get in that price range.

 

[Ken g6]

Do you live near a Micro Center? You could get that there.

Otherwise, how about $230 for the CPU and <$80 for the motherboard?

 

[Toro 45]

No Micro center near me but the links you provided look promising. What are people seeing for overclocks with the i5-4690K?

 

[jihe]

Overclocks well? Then still the old soldered 2500k/2600k. Can only pick up second hand now but would cost less as a result.

 

[Ken g6]

I built up an i5-4670k combo for my son a while back that clocked well.

What are people seeing for overclocks with the i5-4690K?

Anything 4670K can do 4690K can do better. It's the same chip with better power delivery and a better TIM under the IHS.

Overclocks well? Then still the old soldered 2500k/2600k. Can only pick up second hand now but would cost less as a result.

Depends if you're looking for high clocks, or overall performance.

 

[richierich1212]

Pony up $50 more and you can get the new Skylake 6600K.

 

[Absolute0]

For "best bang for buck" I would seek to purchase an i5 or i7 second hand, like for sale forums. Now is a time when a lot of people are moving up to Haswell-E and Skylake so plenty of Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and even Haswell chips should be showing up for sale soon. If you can get a used CPU/mobo combo that would be a pretty sweet bang/buck.

 

[TeknoBug]

i5 2500K, i7 2600K/2700K, i5 3570K and i7 3770K, they overclock like crazy and often with decently low voltage (my i7 3770K was a silicon lottery, hit 4.5GHz with stock voltage, no adjustment whatsoever). Haswell and Broadwell take more effort to overclock.

 

[Yuriman]

If you're buying new, there's only one overclockable i5 and i7, basically. You buy the one with the "K" at the end, either i5 or i7, and get a motherboard with a "Z" in the chipset.

4690K is the older Haswell unlocked i5, which is $240. You can still find them on Newegg, but they've been replaced with the newer 6600K, which is $250. The 4690K pairs with Z97 chipsets, while the 6600K pairs with Z170 chipsets.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Best bang for the buck on the Intel side? For awhile there, it was the G3258, though now it looks like non-K Skylake parts may be bclk-overclockable. So I'm guessing a Skylake-based i3 would fit the bill.

 

[richierich1212]

Best bang for the buck on the Intel side? For awhile there, it was the G3258, though now it looks like non-K Skylake parts may be bclk-overclockable. So I'm guessing a Skylake-based i3 would fit the bill.

Yeah hopefully the rumors are true. But maybe Intel would only limit BLCK overclocking with Z170 motherboards. Here's hoping we can buy an i3 + H110 and overclock those suckers.

 

[SPBHM]

Here's hoping we can buy an i3 + H110 and overclock those suckers.

yes... that would be reason enough for me to upgrade I think.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Best bang for buck is i5 4590 with non-Z board with no overclocking.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Yeah hopefully the rumors are true. But maybe Intel would only limit BLCK overclocking with Z170 motherboards. Here's hoping we can buy an i3 + H110 and overclock those suckers.

Non-Z bclk overclocking would be fantastic. Voltage controls might be a bit "meh" as they were with Non-Z overclocking for the G3258 (on many boards anyway), but it'd still be fun and probably cheap.

Best bang for buck is i5 4590 with non-Z board with no overclocking.

OP wants to overclock.

 

[tweakboy]

Grab a Sandy Bridge 2500 .. GL