(UK) legendary CPU for £130

[theloveablemoose]

I mean overclockers is good and all but it's cheaper from CEX

https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SCPUINTI52500KA#.VIyVTiusV8F

[Tacitus]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-368-IN&groupid=595&catid=662  and something to cool it with http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-058-SV&groupid=595&catid=678

 

Is that CPU cooler any good and would it work on a Z97 motherboard?

 

I'm pretty tempted by it as my 4670k has only the stock intel cooler.

[DildorTheDecent]

Is that CPU cooler any good and would it work on a Z97 motherboard?

 

I'm pretty tempted by it as my 4670k has only the stock intel cooler.

If it supports LGA 1155 it'll support LGA 1150

[imthewalrus]

The 2500k is 15% slower than the 4670k,on synthetic benchmarks, on most games they are the simila. Also the 2500k overclock better, if you are building a budget pc and are willing to buy used parts this is a good deal.

If you are in a budget m.2 and sata express support are not really your priorities.

[felixthemaster1]

Ah yes, my first love. But no one makes Z77 motherboards anymore and if there are any, they're probably fucking expensive.

tl;dr 2500k fucks like a beast, but despite how cheap it is, it will probably be quite expensive to buy Z77.

Here I am, still with my 2500K and my z77 feeling old.

[SkilledRebuilds]

If you can get them at a nice price, their a good deal, but the Motherboard,... bought new/refurb'd or as a replacement (if at any time is needed) that's gonna cost you some cash,..for a real nice one over an average one.

Better newer boards are out with more features, so I sold my 2600K (for a nice price) and bought into a new platform, which handily beats my older system in all things bar one.

 

And yeah you'd need Sandy clocked to 4.8-5.2Ghz to match a current gen Haswell refresh CPU @up to 4.6+Ghz, at least thats what experience leads me to believe without reading into it.

My Multithreading went down by a few percent (saving a 30-60s maybe per hour of video encoding), Singlethreaded went higher by a few more percent, adding extra Gaming performance, AverageFPS and MIN-FPS and about the same in Windows responsiveness