i5-2500 (no overclocking)

[Jumpem]

@toyota: maybe he likes to keep his cpus for 20 years...

Nope only two or three years. I don't care about the longevity of a CPU. I care about data degradation.

 

[toyota]

Nope only two or three years. I don't care about the longevity of a CPU. I care about data degradation.

even with all the balls out cpu overclocking I have seen there has not been any thread started on resulting data degradation. with a mild oc and no voltage change, you will have nothing but your paranoia to worry about.

 

[Sp12]

I'll agree OP is being silly at the risks of overclocking, but if he doesn't want it why not get the 2500S? Lower TDP means lower electric/potentially cooling bill.

 

[Wizlem]

I think you might want to look at getting an H67 board and saving yourself some money if you don't want to overclock. Since data degradation is probably more likely to happen with ram I think slower ram is always the safer bet so H67 works out fine for that too. That is unless you are one of the very very few who doesn't overclock but uses multiple video cards.

 

[996GT2]

If you have no plans to overclock, an H67 board would be a good choice. You can use quick connect, there are more H67 boards in mATX form factor, and there's a pretty good built in IGP you can use if you don't want to buy a discrete card.

 

[Cygnus X1]

Sparked a little convo have I? Anyway, thanks for the discussion. I'll probably go with the "k" after reading this.

 

[OCGuy]

I think we are being trolled on the OC thing guys. Someone does this every couple months, dont feed it.

 

[mnewsham]

^ lol wut?

 

[Dadofamunky]

That's not what it says at all. You've added words to try and support your position. The review has none of the "of which" shit that you're stating.


"
Results are representative of 100 D2 CPUs that were binned and tested for stability under load; these results will most likely represent retail CPUs.
1. Approximately 50% of CPUs can go up to 4.4~4.5 GHz
2. Approximately 40% of CPUs can go up to 4.6~4.7 GHz
3. Approximately 10% of CPUs can go up to 4.8~5 GHz (50+ multipliers are about 2% of this group)"

So when the review specifically states when they are looking at a % of chips within a segment. As in this case the 2% of the 10% clock range. You need to work on your reading comprehension because HardOCP pretty clearly states 100% of the chips they had can overclock to at least 4.4~4.5 GHz.

I **like** those numbers. Grab 'em while you can! Intel might do another spin in a few months where they quietly restrict that kind of thing, when they realize how much money they might have left on the table. Dang, 4.4-4.5 would do me just fine. I'm grabbing mine tomorrow. (assuming availability)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Worried about data degradation from OC? I would be MORE worried due to lack of ECC support on this platform.

Want data integrity? Get Xeons.