why would you spend $1000 on a desktop processor? You're better off buying an i5-2500K and getting yourself a decent GPU and a high end SSD. The SSD is far more important that the tiny performance bump you'd see for your extra $750.
Yeah, I understand that overclocking is never a certainty, and what I'm proposing is hardly revolutionary, but these newer chips (such as Sandy Bridge) are able to overclock a tremendous amount just with the stock cooler and all cores enabled. I wonder how high those overclocks could go with...
I have an Intel i5-2500K and I've had it stably overclocked for months at 4.2GHz quad core, but I had an interesting idea: What if I ran the processor with two cores disabled? The CPU temperatures dropped by 20 to 30 degrees Celsius under load with that configuration, so I bumped it up to 4.4GHz...
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