(If you don't care about overclocking, the regular Core i7-2600 will run you $294 you'll also have to cope with a lesser version of the video hardware, Intel HD Graphics 2000.)Īt least for now, even getting a reasonably priced Core i7-2600K will mean having to spring for a new motherboard as well. That makes this a chip that's geared toward wallet-watching enthusiasts who want a lot of the performance benefits of top-of-the-line Intel chips without the bank-account ache that can accompany splurging on something like a Core i7-980X. The K in the CPU's name means that, in addition to its latent power, it also has an unlocked multiplier for greater ease of overclocking. It has a base clock speed of 3.4 GHz, but can go as high as 3.8 GHz when Turbo Boost is enabled 8MB of 元 cache and has a TDP of 95 watts. With four cores and eight threads (thanks to Intel's Hyper-Threading technology), the Core i7-2600K processor definitely occupies a position in the upper ranges of Intel's new Sandy Bridge line. The Core i7-2600K won't satisfy die-hard enthusiasts, but everyone else is likely to like this power-packed processor. It's not legendary in the 3D department, but its media processing is superb, and in many ways it surpasses similarly priced predecessors from both Intel and AMD. Onboard graphics! Terrific with media! Better than Westmere! Upon testing one of Intel's first Sandy Bridge CPUs, the Core i7-2600K ($317 list), we were astonished to find that it mostly lived up to the hype. Given the towering number of broken promises we've experienced over the years, we were naturally skeptical when Intel began giving us the hard-sell on its new 'second-generation Core' processing platform (a.k.a., Sandy Bridge).

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