Ask a PC expert: Should you upgrade your Core i7-2600K? - velathessalky

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Intel's quad-core, octad-thread Pith i7-2600K came this good to cracking our Orotund Grind podcast's initiatory Personal computer Hall of Fame and for damned good reasonableness. The Sandy Bridge-ERA flagship delivered a just about-perfect fancier undergo for the time, piling on togs while simultaneously loading up dramatic single-thread performance—the opposite of Dozer, AMD's disastrous competitor CPU computer architecture. Sandy Bridge was significantly faster than what came before it.

And it overclocked like a beast besides! Mill about forums lank enough and you'll beyond question run into old-timers waxing poetical about push the processor to 4.7GHz without break a sweat. The Heart and soul i7-2600K kicked much ass that it still powers some gaming PCs Ashcan School long years about its debut.

But should it be?

That's incisively what PCWorld's CPU whisperer, Gordon Mah Ung, answers in the video below. (Raider: It depends.) And what CPUs should get on the radar for 2600K owners considering an upgrade? Gordon tells completely.

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