My choice has to be " And IT IS NOT BECAUSE I HAVE ONE!!" Has to be Sandy Bridge i7-2600k.
1st IMHO I think it was by far it was the best CPU in terms or IPC performance increase over a previous generation.
Overclocking is fantastically easy and very productive giving gains in most every application and game. Mine will run at 5.1ghz with Coolermaster nepton 140XL and not break 70c if ambient temps are below 24c. With ambient temps around 30c almost in most cases now that it is summer and pretty much 4.5yrs after purchase I am running it at 4660mhz and it will not break 70c after 10min of Intel burn test V2.
After 4.5 years paired up on my Gigabyte P67-ud4-b3 MB with 16gb of dr3 1600 it can push pair of EVGA GTX 770 4GB Classified cards in SLI pushing my 34" LG 34UM95 3440-1440 resolution IPS panel as good as any CPU out now possibly being 5% max slower than the newest CPU's that is pretty amazing 4.5 years later.....That is pretty remarkable and thank goodness PCIE 2.0 at 8x is not a bottleneck at 3440-1440 or 2560-1440 and 2560-1600 resolutions and I do not expect it to be for another couple years.
Now with Windows 10 lower CPU overhead "like mantle" and Direct X12's new SLI format where it is going to split screen render instead of alternate frame rendering allowing the memory to be shared/or stacked on the cards since it will sorta act like one big GPU. I think DX12 along with windows 10 will prolong the life of Sandy Bridge even longer and in another year when Direct X12 games are commonplace I am sure a single card solution will replace my SLI'ed 770 Classifieds. I am hoping my 770's and AMD will stay alive long enough to allow Nvidia to release a FURY type HBM card with at least 8gb of memory that I will replace my 770Classy's with and use a single 16x PCIE16x slot since I do not see myself ever switching from the 34" 3440-1440 resolution 21/9 format. It is just too perfect for work and especially gaming with peripheral vision and a overall immersiveness that is bezel free.
Very interested in all your thoughts on if SandyBridge CPU's were the best Mainstream CPU's made the last 10 years...or do you have other thoughts?
1st IMHO I think it was by far it was the best CPU in terms or IPC performance increase over a previous generation.
Overclocking is fantastically easy and very productive giving gains in most every application and game. Mine will run at 5.1ghz with Coolermaster nepton 140XL and not break 70c if ambient temps are below 24c. With ambient temps around 30c almost in most cases now that it is summer and pretty much 4.5yrs after purchase I am running it at 4660mhz and it will not break 70c after 10min of Intel burn test V2.
After 4.5 years paired up on my Gigabyte P67-ud4-b3 MB with 16gb of dr3 1600 it can push pair of EVGA GTX 770 4GB Classified cards in SLI pushing my 34" LG 34UM95 3440-1440 resolution IPS panel as good as any CPU out now possibly being 5% max slower than the newest CPU's that is pretty amazing 4.5 years later.....That is pretty remarkable and thank goodness PCIE 2.0 at 8x is not a bottleneck at 3440-1440 or 2560-1440 and 2560-1600 resolutions and I do not expect it to be for another couple years.
Now with Windows 10 lower CPU overhead "like mantle" and Direct X12's new SLI format where it is going to split screen render instead of alternate frame rendering allowing the memory to be shared/or stacked on the cards since it will sorta act like one big GPU. I think DX12 along with windows 10 will prolong the life of Sandy Bridge even longer and in another year when Direct X12 games are commonplace I am sure a single card solution will replace my SLI'ed 770 Classifieds. I am hoping my 770's and AMD will stay alive long enough to allow Nvidia to release a FURY type HBM card with at least 8gb of memory that I will replace my 770Classy's with and use a single 16x PCIE16x slot since I do not see myself ever switching from the 34" 3440-1440 resolution 21/9 format. It is just too perfect for work and especially gaming with peripheral vision and a overall immersiveness that is bezel free.
Very interested in all your thoughts on if SandyBridge CPU's were the best Mainstream CPU's made the last 10 years...or do you have other thoughts?
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