Retro review: Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7 2600K - 2018 review
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ttnuagmada
Stock clocks and DDR3 1333? Wish you had at least thrown a 4.5ghz+ with some faster ram in the mix.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
The Goose
Not sure about pci-e lane improvements, my last 6 cpu`s(2500k,4790k,g4560,6600k,6700k and 7700k) have all been limited to 16 lanes whereas my 4820k i had 40 on the cpu to play with and i didnt have the option for m.2 pci-e x4 back then.
matox
I really really liked this article. Thank you!
Additionally, I think someone needs complain about how crappy the 6600k is in comparison. I'll do it: it's just a shameful. I'm glad Ryzen forced intel to up their game a notch.
Thanks HH!
Kaarme
Still a better CPU than mine, which is a perfect example of how Intel didn't bother to do anything during all those years when AMD couldn't put up a fight. Three whole generations between that CPU and mine, yet the old basic i7k still beats the much newer i5k. But I'm glad Intel made hundreds of billions of profit in the meantime. Not a single cent of it was used for the benefit of the customers.
I'm so glad AMD was finally able to make a comeback. It was such a sick market.
Ourasi
http://imagehost.nordei.de/pics/d880df4b9bb98ad0b96267b54952b648.png
Would have been fun to see you do the entire benchmarksuite at these settings π
Here you can see what my 2600K does at 4.7ghz and with 16gb 2133mhz RAM in Aida64:
fantaskarsef
Ourasi
Then he would have to spend a few hours uploading benches and games I do not have, easier to send him the motherboard/CPU/RAM mounted and ready to go at 4.7ghz/2133mhz, only thing I would need in return was a Ryzen 1800x setup or something in that ballpark π
Anyhow, every site like Guru3D should have a setup like mine ready to go with these settings on the shelf, since so many with SB 2500k/2600K would benefit greatly to se exactly where their old OC'ed CPU/RAM stands vs. current setups.. I suspect most SB user would smile and nod their heads on how good value for money their investment truly was..
Angantyr
Great article, was a pleasant read. But I swear, the " Time to upgrade? " question comes round in full force with each hardware release. And usually the answers to those questions were always as valid as they were predicable; Stick with what you have and be content or get an upgrade if you need it and can afford it.
At least with the Ryzen and Coffee lake releases, people started to feel a leap in improvement. Just kinda happy the years of Ivy bridge/Haswell/Skylake / quad-core upgrade discussions have started to dull out.
vbetts
Moderator
Interesting that it doesn't seem that bad still. Would be very interesting to see overclocked results across the board, but this does kind of help paint a picture here.
Also good to see some Bulldozer results still. My little brother is rocking an 8130 at 4.5 ghz, and my girlfriend is rocking a 9590 just using boost clocks. Those should be comparable some to the 2600k at those clocks.
Reviews like this show it's also possible to do some budget building by getting some last gen hardware.
CoMmAnDrX2
Still running my 2600K with no need to replace. Heck haven't even OC'd this chip yet as I've had no reason so far to do so. My bottle neck in this system is my HDD and GPU
FranciscoCL
Great idea and nice review, but is sad that your motherboard (H61) prevents you from doing OC.
I guess that a lot of the users that are askng "Is it time for upgrade?" are using that 2600k with OC.
RzrTrek
Sandy Bridge master race.
Ryu5uzaku
Stocks against stocks fine battle. It's clear that 2600k shows it's age unless you get it oc'd to 4.5 even then it would show it's age.
Evildead666
I'm still happy with my 3570K @4.2GHz.
Might upgrade to Ryzen+ or Ryzen2. Mostly depends on the memory prices coming back down...
Ourasi
Well, 167cb in singlethread in cinebech would atleast put my 2600k@4.7ghz way up in the charts, the 2133mhz ram increases gaming performance significantly, as 2600K is bottlenecked severely by standard DDR3 speeds.
http://imagehost.nordei.de/pics/0fcbfdc76ded88dd4ef5f3ad103a082b.jpg
RealNC
Fox2232
I'll talk for my 2500K, it is dead from performance perspective. Some games show it too. And I do not have Spectre/Meltdown patches yet.
I have seen some results of those patches online for Sandy. SSD IOps go down by around 30%. Compute by 2~10%.
BF1 is most painful. For games I turn off any other application I do not need. My system is no longer Gaming capable PC. It is productivity capable Console.
Seeing 2200G/2400G dancing around 2600K, they would make my 2500K produce magic smoke in attempt to match them. And MS's Spectre patches are behind corner.
DeskStar
Killer review as always.....!
I think I'll wait out my 3930K @ 4.7Ghz and 32Gb of quad channel DDR3 RAM @ 2400mhz! Throughput at these speeds are on par with quad DDR4 with its lame timings/latency of today.
Not to mention the prices.......that's enough for most to stay away from an upgrade.
Brasky
great review and a fun comparison with the new processors. Thanks for taking the time to do an "oldy but goody"!