Get the 2500K and an after market cooler in the $60 - $80 range. I would recommend either Noctua NH-U12P SE2 or the Corsair H60. The total price would be around the same but it would out perform the 2600 with stock cooling in almost all cases, barely anything uses more than 4 cores
I have a 2500K running @ 4.6 Ghz, 1.275v using a Corsair H70 with 2 Noctura fans instead of the stock ones since the stock ones are way too loud. Temps stay in the low 50C and never seen it go over 54C
The overclock isn't failing, its 100% stable with the overclock settings. This only happens when the computer boots from a cold boot. Restarting does not do this. I suspect it has something to do with the MemOK! feature but I don't know how to turn this off.
I just built a computer and have a problem when turning it on from a cold boot. It just sits there with a blank screen until I hold down the power button to turn it off and then back on. Once I do this it tells me that an overlock failed and to go into the bios and check my settings. It...
I just built a new PC based off of the sandy bridge platform and I'm having an issue when I turn my machine on from a cold boot. For some reason it turns on and just sits there until I restart it at which point the BIOS tells me that an overclock failed and to go into the settings and check my...
I'm looking at buying a new machine for work since I'm still using a P4 and it is definitely showing its age.
My question is that I use 2 monitors at work and the new machine I'm going to build was using one of the new core i3 or core i5 CPUs and the GIGABYTE GA-H55M-S2H LGA 1156 Intel H55...
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