Honesly, for anyone who may want to know, how good is the 2500k,2600k, and 2700k these days? I can get them for cheap and i was just wondering.
All three are great. The performance difference between ivy and sandy bridge is very small in most applicatons, and they OC better too.
they are still very good compared the the newest generation
Its a goal of mine, to get a cpu to 5ghz. Which will get me there? Any processor, any make.
You need to go with an AMD vishera CPU to get to five.
Ive heard of some godly 2500k's, and i could only assume the i7's would oc a bit better.
i5's OC better, unless you disable hyper-threading on the i7's, in which case they're about the same. Hyper-threading increasing power consumption, which generates more heat, which adversly affects OC stability.
4.8GHz seems to be upper-limit of the majority of 2500k's, but that might just be me. You're going to need a heck of a cooler, and a nice motherboard to support that OC. 5GHz is kinda the holy number that seems to be just out of reach without pumping excessive voltage for the 2500k's.
i have a 2700k myself and its the best thing since sliced bread.
all of the sandy 'k' chips are heavily sough after especially if its a good overclocker. my suggestion by as many as you can if you get them cheap. find the best overclocker. keep that and sell the rest.
i would have a sandy k over an ivy k anyday. (de-lidded ivy is of course boss though :-) )
Ivy Bridge processors only have a marginal advantage over Sandy Bridge ones, so nothing bad buying a Sandy Bridge CPU.
Though yeah, you're gonna need a really good cooler (water cooler may be only option) and a quality motherboard to OC past 5 GHz.. Even then I won't guarantee that it'll work since it may or may not be unstable with much added voltage to keep it past 5 GHz.
Also for some reason, in the reigon where I live, 2600K is the most expensive LGA 1155 CPU I can get... Even 3770K and 2700K is cheaper. -.-