Not a gamer. Not at all. I try to delete them from my systems. waste of time.
This box does desktop publishing, long documents. Now using 64-bit Win8Pro 64-bit (and mostly 10-12 yr OLD apps (W2K era), running in compatibility mode). Certainly not 64-bit apps, and nothing to do with Adobe's latest pocket picking approach but they run faster in the system I have than they have ever run before...so they find their own chunk of memory and W7/8 leaves them alone in it.
The 2600K is incredibly quick at doing the things I've done for nearly 30 years on everything from 286 to now. I've had it running happily for going on 3 years.
Looking forward, though, I've not yet seen or recognized any CPU package that really delivers more thoughput than I am seeing now.. A hexcore offers that but I doubt it would deliver with the old apps .
CPU Boss doesn't come up with anything really stronger than the 2600K. A few percent is nothing on the "butt dyno" so I'm trying to look ahead.
It's not a hertz issue, because the box runs at idle speed most of the operations even when they are really fast (almost bought a copy of DOS 6 just to run Wordstar and see how fast it was at 3-4GHz instead of 3-4Mhz<G>).
The 2600K is just awesome...but I'm looking for the next click up as of next June.<G>
Who's got a crystal ball?
This box does desktop publishing, long documents. Now using 64-bit Win8Pro 64-bit (and mostly 10-12 yr OLD apps (W2K era), running in compatibility mode). Certainly not 64-bit apps, and nothing to do with Adobe's latest pocket picking approach but they run faster in the system I have than they have ever run before...so they find their own chunk of memory and W7/8 leaves them alone in it.
The 2600K is incredibly quick at doing the things I've done for nearly 30 years on everything from 286 to now. I've had it running happily for going on 3 years.
Looking forward, though, I've not yet seen or recognized any CPU package that really delivers more thoughput than I am seeing now.. A hexcore offers that but I doubt it would deliver with the old apps .
CPU Boss doesn't come up with anything really stronger than the 2600K. A few percent is nothing on the "butt dyno" so I'm trying to look ahead.
It's not a hertz issue, because the box runs at idle speed most of the operations even when they are really fast (almost bought a copy of DOS 6 just to run Wordstar and see how fast it was at 3-4GHz instead of 3-4Mhz<G>).
The 2600K is just awesome...but I'm looking for the next click up as of next June.<G>
Who's got a crystal ball?
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