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I bought it to upgrade from a i5-2500k that I had overclocked to 4.7GHz with easy. Unfortunately this chip doesn't really like going above 4.5GHz without more voltage. I am still very happy with it for the price I paid and the added logical cores due to Hyper Threading out weigh the loss of 200MHz per core.
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In today's world, engineering Plans for highways, signal systems etc are superimposed over Google Earth KMZ files. It give a better perspective of a project location and scope, but the KMZ files end up with a lot of saved information and they can end up loading at glacial speeds. My older LGA 775 system, built up on a Gigabyte DDR3 mobo and a QX6850 and OC'd to 3.2GHz required 62 seconds to load one particularly large KMZ file. My I5 system at the office takes about 40 seconds. I think it's an I5-4460. This CPU, in a Gigabyte GA-P67a-UD3 mobo takes 21 seconds from the moment I double-click on the file until the last of the many icons loads. Granted, I'm using a 2GB video card with this board, but I used the exact same card (nVidia) with the LGA775 system and it didn't decrease the load time significantly. Also, when I go to street view and move around, the video with this CPU is liquid smooth. So I'm happy. All three systems above use Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. The two LGA1155 systems have 16GB RAM, and my older LGA775 had 8GB. My personal systems use HyperEx Fury RAM.Read full review
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I tend to hold out on upgrades until I need to, rather than going overboard and spending money on performance I don't yet need. I personally upgraded from 2500k to the 2600k and I can definitely notice a difference in games where I had lower frames. Far Cry 4 and primal went from being able to play high setting to max setting on 1080p with a gtx 1060 6gb. I also noticed some gains in Planet coaster which was the real reason I wanted to upgrade (very cpu heavy game). I kept my expectations low, not everything got a huge boost in performance but for the most part almost all my games got just a little bit more smoother which was noticeable. If I hadn't seen any gains in the games I wanted after upgrading, I was going to head on the path of a new 6700k but I can honestly say that this little upgrade will probably be enough for me for the next few years. Planet Coaster isn't a perfect 60fps but it is so much smoother so I'm happy.Read full review
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Even though this is a 2nd gen core i7, it still has plenty of age left! runs all modern triple A titles with ease, when paired with something like a GTX 1080 ti!
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Just Installed This Processor And It Works Great.
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