Rocko Modaro

high fididelity/quality sound.  ATH-M40x are big but a bit small.

SHP9500s

Now this is Fake News!

Now this is Fake News!

Now this is Fake News!

The 2600(k) is pretty much the last big leap intel made before 6 years of scratching their butts. Only just now, with renewed competition from AMD, are we seeing significant improvements again. By selling it you could make 100$ or so, if you're lucky, but don't expect it to be worth gold - it's in relatively high demand simply because it doesn't perform much worse than a new chip and it can be had for far cheaper (this will change rapidly now that intel and amd are back on track).
 
If you find it fluid and fast and only want to upgrade for the fun of it, I suggest you wait a generation or two, since right now everything indicates there will be a new performance race. Maybe in a couple of years we'll get 12 cores or more on desktop platforms, before things settle down a bit.

get coffee lake. no point in kaby lake.

The value of the 2600 non-K is virtually nothing these days,  $65-75. The 2600K and 3770K however can fetch $100-150.

Honestly a gpu upgrade will give you a bigger performance boost. Upgrading to a coffee lake cpu with a new motherboard and new ram would cost you north of 450$, enough to get you a Vega 56 or 1070ti.
It really depends on the resolution, though in his case it's true. However, the 2600 can be overclocked to over 4ghz if you have a p67, z68 or z77 motherboard - with an overclock the bottleneck is significantly reduced. Have you tried that @Rocko Modaro? Personally I still don't feel the need for an upgrade, but since I play at 4k I notice any cpu shortcomings in games a lot less.

Do nothing for now, your best alternative is keep saving and get down the line the i7 8700 on the cheapest h310 chipset Asus branded motherboard you find in January with 2666mhz ram.

Skip Kaby Lake and go Coffee Lake in early 2018 when the lower end chipsets launch. Much better value. And you'll notice the most after upgrading the GPU also. A midrange card like the 1060, 480/580 will run fine with a 2600, but 1070/Vega56 and up is a bit too much.

Lol, depends on your temperatures right?

Lol, depends on your temperatures right?

6800k, buy it, now. It wont be as fast atm, but with some oc, itll be better. As for the upgrade, singlecore wise, not really, multi core, yeah, a bit. I would do it, but im the guy who would buy 24c xeons because the 18c 7980xe isnt good enough.

Was considering buying the phone, now I'm not.

Headphone Jack
 
Designed for Gamers
 
Pick one, Razer
 
Pathetic.

Not ATM. Microsoft doesn't roll out design changes all at once. They do it slowly... Their new design thing is to make things not just transparent but blurry transparent. kind of like how some versions of Android and iOS do it. They have adopted it to many UI elements but not all yet. Their Icon redesign for example, came out in waves. They aren't going to do glossy anymore but they mad add "light" (not shiny but more glowy). They haven't actually announced they will do this but it seems they are planning to redesign Windows Explorer though.

Been around for a while maybe a year ago in the first Creators Update. Color is based on theme color.There's also a black theme for settings.
 

i tweaked services.msc so many times i can do all of the services in +- 1-2minutes LOL

hahaha no man i got 20years of experience into software tweaking / ram tweaking
 
too big to make lol also have other things to do rather then post stuff

^^ thts wht i meant haha
 
HPET FOR THE WIN!!!
 
imagine how quick ur windows would run if u fully tweak it hpet is just ONE OF THEM   ^^
 
if u like the responsiveness tweak from HPET u might wanna consider tweaking alot more ;o

ahh i mean as in more responsiveness from opening stuff, such as the browser/ my computer/control panel and what not, it should react/open quicker ( system responsiveness should be improvement with ur current hpet settings c; )
 
or feel even smoother   / less input lag

if overtime the issue seems to come back u can try messing with hpet settings again, else just contact me again il help u figure out stuff im a friggen tweakfreak
 
can just whisper me in that case ^^ or quote

ummm short said
 
HPET is the timing of ur hardware to the software +-ish ( trying to explain it so u understand c; )
 
its basicly like a ram's cas latency but then the timing between hardware to software / chipset
 
if the cas latency on ram is set too loose it will end up getting choppy aswell or cause instability/issues
 
it can cause video stutter, slower load times, or worse performance/stutter in any application really
 
however changing hpet settings can also do nothing but improve stuff ( thats usually what it does because the windows default settings suck balls )
 
i hope u get the point with this example ^^

nah HPET can cause really big issues due to timings beeing off in windows
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer
 
there are 4 different tables u can set
 
they are
 
HPET ENABLED IN BIOS + WINDOWS ENABLED
 
HPET ENABLED IN BIOS + NOT IN WINDOWS
 
HPET DISABLED IN BIOS + WINDOWS ENABLED
 
HPET DISABLED IN BIOS + WINDOWS DISABLED
 
best setting is
 
HPET ENABLED IN BIOS + WINDOWS ENABLED
 
 
default setting is
 
HPET ENABLED IN BIOS + NOT IN WINDOWS
 
 
changing HPET settings can fix stutter/fps drops and responsiveness / alt tab bugs and what not
 
and ye i know im a windows / tweakfreak i disable almost all services off windows LOL extreme tweaking for the win!
 
the setting i gave u = HPET ENABLED IN BIOS + WINDOWS ENABLED
 
 
the setting u had before = HPET ENABLED IN BIOS + NOT IN WINDOWS
 
ASSUMING U HAVE UR BIOS HPET SET TO DEFAULT AND DIDNT SET IT MANUALLY TO DISABLED