I’m using this identical setup, mobo and cooler since 2011!! Yeah we’re still out there believe it or not haha. It’s been almost 12 years, I can’t believe it! I haven’t overclocked much so that’s why I think it’s lasted so long. I will be upgrading in 2023 so in the meantime I’m going to OC to 4.5ghz and give her a run for her money one last time. Great chip, great video!!
Haha yep were still out there! Im still playing on mine thats the exact same setup as that as well. Started with 570, now with the 1080ti. I cant complain.
I've had mine running at 4.5g for more than 10 years and this beast is still going! All on the same Corsair AIO water cooler too! Amazing how long this has lasted me. This desktop started on a 570GTX and has outlasted many generations of GPUs over the last decade! I just upgraded the GPU to a 6650XT. I'll probably finally upgrade to a 12600k this year on black Friday. It'll be hard to say goodbye to my old 2500k friend lol. This chip is legendary!
@@scupking I never ended up using them together. I picked up a 3600 Ryzen and motherboard for $100 on a pre Black Friday sale. So now I have a 3600 running with the 6650xt. Seems good so far but I haven't really tried to overclock or push it yet. I did put the 6650xt in with the 2500k just for a day and seemed fine though.
@@missconductx awwww I was hoping for a 2500k / 6650xt result lol. I sae others running it with 70+ fps on some games, and 120 fps on things like tomb raider.
Curios how long the AIO will last, recommended to replace about 5 years. I’ve had an H105(I think?) on my 2700x oc 4.2gz since new and the temps are so good in hard to believe(well below 60c usually still in the mid to high 40c
My daughter uses an old rig with the 2500k. I bought it brand new back in 2011. Currently have it OC to 4.17 with an AIO cooler and have never had any issues in the past 5 years. I'm sure I could get more out of it but I see no need. Truly a legend!
Great video, as always! I had an i7-2600k because my order got mixed up. Originally I had ordered the 2500k :D It was stunning, how good that CPU was! A whole new world to me, back in the day! It absolutely blew me away. Today I'm rocking an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and I don't know what my next CPU will be. My wife has the 8700k and that thing is still a beast, runs smooth af
@@nexus_tech Ah great! :D Man to be honest the 7000 series are looking so tempting! But since I had to give up my entrepreneurship (a small IT-Service), I gotta count every penny.
Great video mate thank you from Australia. Yes I've owned this exact chip I5 2500k. I brought it in 2011 when released and it is STILL going strong today. Same Z68-UD4/B3 motherboard as I originally had in there and also a GTX 680 2GB. Oringinal Gskill sniper ddr3 1600mhz ram, 8gb. All cooled in a corsair 600T mid tower with a H100i twin fan AIO cooler. It's been my only gaming PC since 2011. I have had kids since and thus PC took a back seat for a good while only playing a bit of war thunder here and there on the weekends. Until.... I found Escape from tarkov which my brother in law introduced me to on his "new" R7 5600x cpu, b450 mobo, 32gb ram over 4 slots. And a 6600gt card. Well.... without a word of a lie. I fell in love with the game so came home to attempt it on my machine.... my gtx680 struggled on high but ran one map perfectly so, I went back down the OC journey I once took years ago. I've upped mu vcore to 1.36, 1.9v on my ram with matched timings, I've upgraded the ram to a second hand pair of 8gb sticks so now I have 1600mhz running on xmp profile 1 standard ( stable ) but the CPU I have bumped to a X 48 @ 104mhz per core. And also updated my gpu to a 3060ti 12gb card. Let me say, cpu z is punching out 655 avg on the same test you did and escape from tarkov.... has pissed my brother in law off that my PC runs it better than his.... deadset. He hasn't played with me since hahahaha. Buy yes awesome chip, do you know its cook off temp ? I get a 4 cores at FL and I'm sitting at 68 - 72 Celsius. I think the death temp from mem is near 95 so. I'm well happy hahaha can post legit stat's to if no one believes how good this chip over clock's. I'm even thinking of a touch more vcore and maybe a 107, 49 X :) your video was EXACTLY what I needed to see thabk you mate
Ah! That was really nice to read, Thank you kindly! I'm glad to hear that it's still going strong, those were legendary chips for their time :) Say you was to upgrade, Intel or AMD?
@@nexus_tech nowadays intel has lost its groove and AMD is the nrw trend setter.the price of their chips is perfect in comparison.( from an outsider looking in ) I used to be agaisnt AMD with a passion but no reason to be now. So, AMD,
I bought the i5 2500k the day it was released. I still have it and it’s still being used in my bedroom paired with a 2080 on a cheap dell oem board. I still game with it. Fine for everything I play. And I have never overclocked it
I am still using i5-2500k. I bought one after release with Intel DZ68DB mainboard. It was in my desktop for many years and now it is in my NAS machine - 6xHDD ZFS Raid Z2 with 32GB RAM. Works great. Even manages to stream big things thru emby.
Love this chip, got one brand new for a build back in mid-2011 with 8gb of ram (1600mhz) and a gtx 460. On day one with the stock cooler, I overclocked it to 4.5ghz. Since then I have upgraded the GPU every few years, gtx 560 ti, gtx 570, gtx660, gtx 660 sli, Titan Xp (2017 model) but the CPU has always been consistent. A couple of years ago I added an aftermarket cooler and pushed it to 4.7ghz with no issues and a big drop in temperature. Last year I switched the ram out for 16gb of 1866mhz and the CPU is still going. Only Kingdom Come Deliverance could humble the CPU when you increased the draw distance. We will never see the sort of price to performance of this chip again, although the Alder Lake gen is finally starting to make it look tempting.
Thanks for sharing mate! I kept the 2700K for years and years before switching to AMD for 3900X, when I sold the PC, it had 16GB of Memory, SSD and 980ti, still capable of playing most titles on high, but started with GTX570! Good old rig 🙂
Love it, bro! I'm still rocking my i5-2500k @ 4.5Ghz on that same Asus board with an MSI 560ti. Just bought an Asus Tuf 3090ti last Friday, hoping for some BF deals on an i5-13600k and Asus Tuf Z790, icue h150i elite and Corsair 5000d airflow and some RAM. Probably stick with D4... After seeing this though I think I should upgrade the 560ti and let my kids use the old rig.
Mike! Thanks for checking out the content! Gotta love Sandy Bridge chips! Wowers - going full steam ahead with your RIG, good luck and let me know what you ended up with :)
I had a I7 2600K, then upgraded to 3770K and that platform was 6 years in usage. After that now I'm running on a Xeon E5 2690 v2 CPU with 10 Cores and didn't regret this update. It was a cheap system with still power in in it
People are now doing retro reviews of the CPU that I'm still daily driving at 4.5 GHz with a GTX 970. Although as far as I remember with a voltage offset, not a set voltage. I assume it aids longevity. Haven't tried the brand newest games but reinstalled Snowrunner yesterday and it runs like a charm at 1080p mid/high settings. In 2011 I thought I would have to replace it around 2015, in 2015 (when I did replace the original GTX 560 Ti) I thought I would have to replace it around 2019, in 2019 I just gave up on planning an upgrade schedule and started marvelling at every extra year I could get out of this little wonderboy.
Thanks for sharing your experience mate! Love to hear you're still rocking one! I owed 2700K for long years and only upgraded to Ryzen9 for those threads needed with Blender etc...Are you planning on sticking with Intel for your next CPU ? :)
@@nexus_tech I've grown to dislike Intel's business practices but actually I've had a 1650v2 (nearly identical to 4930K) and an NVME on a PCIe adapter (requires a patched BIOS and Win 7 installation if you're not using a newer Win version) lying around since last year, the motherboard I got for it at a later point just happened to be faulty and I haven't yet found another one for a decent price. It's less a necessary upgrade and more plain old curiosity and an opportunity to check quad channel memory, a hilarious number of PCIe lanes, SLI (going to get another 970) and on the occasion also 3D Vision (already have a monitor, just need a cheap set of glasses and transmitter) off the bucket list. Planning on completing the build this fall and then use it for only two years or so before an actual upgrade with actual new parts (Ryzen 7000 3D or even Ryzen 8000 by that point?).
amazing chip and amazing video :D! One thing that I reccomend is to NEVER use more than 4x MSAA in GTA V because its extremely heavy (like hairworks in the witcher 3) and you get no real visual benefit other than having half the fps. I'd reccomend to not use it at all if playing in 4K because at such high resolution you don't really need antialiasing.
Im still rocking my i5-2500k thats been in my first and only build so far way back in 2012 and with that same mobo too..started with a 570sc then 770 then 1080ti.. no issues at all!
i used a i5-2500k until last month (got an i5-10400k from a friend). it is still performing well. never had any issues with it. not sure what to do with it now. frame it or use it for something 'retro'...
Just about the same setup except for the Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 motherboard since 2012 running almost 24/7/365 with ASUS E-Z overclock @ 4.2ghz Only just now upgrading to a 13700K setup mostly for productivity reasons. Still plays games at 1080p and desktops well enough. Though the 2018 Spectre/Meltdown patches didn't do us any favors performance wise.
Now it's 2024 and i just bought cheap two PC's with same motherboard and processor. Never had it till now, i'm really surprized how smooth the pc's are working.
Had my 2500k since it came out in 2011, re-used a 7900gs at the time, then budget 950 gtx, HDD to SSD, OC'd cpu to 4.4, OC'd 950 gtx, 8->16gb, finally 2060 rtx (paired well with a chip so old), runs everything, beast in its final form.
@@nexus_tech No, but the 2060rtx probably completes the journey. My last two CPU were cele 600@900, core 2 duo 6400, then this godly CPU. Nothing since has been needed or too exciting. Hoping for a milestone with better power efficiency. If I stick with intel, 5nm might make sense.
I have used a i7 2600 (before i switched to Ryzen 5 4500) and it was still decent honestly shame it didn't have a better motherboard and 16GB of DDR3 around me :/
I bought the i5 2500k the day it was released. I still have it and it’s still being used in my bedroom paired with a 2080 on a cheap dell oem board. I still game with it. Fine for everything I play. And I have never overclocked it. My main rig is a r9 3900x also
Recently had to build a pc for general use at home, so i thought, lets make my teenage years dream pc, got a z77 motherboard, a 500gb ssd, an i5 2500k, 16gb ram, my old gtx 1060 6gb and a nice box, put a diy watercooler from ebay parts, installed windows 7 with extended kernel and i love it more than my gaming rig 😂
this chip isnt much slower than my Ryzen 5 1600 AF, i score 461.6 and 3711.4 multi on cpuZ at 4.25ghz on 1.375v and 1.15soc, comparatively that i5 is a great chip for gaming
I've been trying to push my cpu to 4.5 and struggling to get it stable. Everything id read has so many more tweaks involved. This is simpler and my 4.5 is stable with decent temps under full load. Thanks for sharing! I'm using an asus sabertooth z77 board.
I'll be honest, I looked this video up because sometimes I get nostalgic for my 2500k. It's in a gaming PC I built out of old parts. I gave it to a buddy who never had a proper gaming PC, and it's still rocking. Shine on you crazy diamond!
Would you be interested in a i7 2700k?? I have one that works and would like to see it in a video because I don't have a motherboard that can handle the monster
I still have my 2500k, the mobo it was in died. This CPU was such a beast, I ran it a 4.8ghz overclock with NO OVERVOLTING 100% stable, it would hit 5ghz with some overvolting. I had a giant scythe mugen 2 cooler, and I honestly ran this thing with no cpu cooler fan for like 3 yeas because the fan clips jut disappeared one day messing with stuff. 4.8ghz, under 75C, with a passive cooling setup and no overvolting, LEGENDARY CPU
Oh no! Did you ever replace the mobo? Yes, I believe those were last chips with soldered TIM before intel swapped to thermal paste, might explain a thing or two!
@@nexus_techNo, the thing has just been sitting there, Ive been too lazy to gt a mobo for it, I probably should though, that 2500k still has life. Idk how much lga 1155 boards even are anymore
My mom is still running this, was my old CPU before upgradind to 3700X. Running at 4.2 GHz daily with no voltage increase since ages. Its like a default setting for me there.
2500k is more than enough for normal user without playing games, but unfortunately intel HD 3000 on chip graphics card freezes and restarts computer often while watching youtube films, with discrete gc everything works well, it happens bc hd 3000 has very old 2016 drivers without support, it startged from firefox 78 and other browsers around june 2020 when WebRender feature for intel HD chips had been implemented
Mine works as a charm, no issues at all. I use my 2500k as multimedia pc especially for listening music, youtube an simmilar things and it runns smooth.
Hi Nexus Tech ! (i dont speak english very well) What cooler do u use on this 2500k ? And how many RAM have u added ? I have see we can go at 32 Go RAM with this pocessor and motherboard, cadenced at 1066/ 1333mhz. ( My config is ASUS P8Z77-V LX2, Intel Core i5 2500K, Nvdia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MSI, Kingston 16 Go Ram 160 mhz )
Planning to get an OEM second hand Intel PC, because my GPU is bandwidth limited in a Pcie 2.0 x 16. R7 260x 1gb was underutilized in control, rift breaker and doom 2016. Overclocked the following stuff: fx 8300, athlon 760k, phenom Ii 955T, and Oland to Bonaire gpu series. No luck with Intel.
Lol are you genuinely running a 1gb card today? How is that even possible. I was going to mix and mash an old second hand rig together for more relaxing games to be played on my tv, using the 260x 2gb with a 2500k. They pair nicely. I will also be using the Nimez drivers too
@@re2590 Yes. GTX 460, R7 260X, R5 240. During the study at home covid period, I bought and modified several low end second hand OEM computers for my kids for online schooling and gaming at home. Some game are well optimized to run at 1 gb VRAM. Just a lot of trial and error. Nimez not needed for GCN 1.0 and above. I used Nimez 21.5.2 for a HD 5770.
Moved too a Ryzen 5600 December 1st from this chip at 4.5 ghz, keeping my 1660 super for a while longer. Gonna be my testrig too mess about with some stuff, currently as a testrig it sits at 3.7 ghz on all cpu cores as im using a stock cpu cooler. Performance simply wasn't there for borderlands 3 too play smoothly & gta online.
@@nexus_tech The I5 2500k ? Gonna keep it around as a testing rig with my old motherboard & ram too mess about with from time too time with graphics cards & older benchmarks like 3dmark 2001se, 03 etc... Don't think I'll be able too sell the motherboard as the onboard sound is dead & i had some weird issues with usb as well at one point few months ago so it might be a goner in a while anyway. Ram is just two different pairs of 1600 mhz 4 gb sticks so nothing special there really pair of red a-data xpg i think they are called. & corsair vengence with the tall coolers on there. Motherboard is a Asus p8 z77-v lx so not exactly a great board anyway. Atm it's sitting with the stock cooler running at 3.7 ghz & Atlas OS 20H2 i think it was on an old 160 gb mechanical hdd. 1660 super I'm using for my main pc for now if you are wondering about that. (Motherboard atm is a MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX i bought used for 850 sek or about 80 usd June this year.) 16 gb kingston fury 3200 mhz kit also bought around june for 61 isd or 649 sek, got this new rather then a used kit. Cpu cooler is the Noctua nh-u12p se2 which i just bought the AM4 mounting kit for like 99 sek or 10$ works great on the 5600 & cost basically nothing. Keeping it until i can set aside money for something with rtx 2080ti ish performance either used or new, & then it's gonna go into my lil brothers system probably which will be getting a gtx 970 tomorrow i picked up used for 60$.
Lol I see so many people with decent gpu's in with cpu, even up until recently :O I missed a lot on pc's over the years with life situations, ended up buying a console and stuck with it up until 2 years ago, bought a 5800x with a 6600xt and 16gb 3800mhz cl14 ram. Been happy since. But I did buy this exact cpu to pair up with another oldie a 260x Dco2 OC 2gb gpu, for a budget build. One I can use on my tv and less competitive games you could say. I saw a few games run on this gpu, it's ok. Nothing elite or amazing, its just for some older games off gog like dynasty warriors and stuff so should handle it fine I guess. But surprised to see so many people using 2060's, 970's etc, haha I would have thought this cpu would have bottlenecked loads. I saw someone even testing up to a 3070 and still getting 70-100 fps lol. I don't know why I spend so much money on my 5800x now lol
У меня дома такой же пк с одинаковой материнской платой как на вашем видео asus P8p67 pro и i5 2500k разогнан до 4.4. gtx 960 2gb, 16gb ddr3 2133. Этот процессор в разгоне до сих пор тянет все новые игры.
My 2500K was a golden chip. I remember putting it to 4.2ghz without touching anything at the stock voltage 1.2 and it was stable. Then with a better cooler had I had her at 4.8ghz for daily use and even ran some cinebench R15 at 5ghz with a score of 638.
I have a golden 2500K which hits 5.2GHz stable with water. Probably is capable for even more, just would need even beefier cooling since I need to go above 1.5V.
I’m using this identical setup, mobo and cooler since 2011!! Yeah we’re still out there believe it or not haha. It’s been almost 12 years, I can’t believe it! I haven’t overclocked much so that’s why I think it’s lasted so long. I will be upgrading in 2023 so in the meantime I’m going to OC to 4.5ghz and give her a run for her money one last time. Great chip, great video!!
Thanks for sharing mate! Glad to hear it's still going strong! Ryzen made me upgrade, but it was more of "want" than "need"...:)
Mine has been overclocked to 4.5 for over 10 years, no worries.
Haha yep were still out there! Im still playing on mine thats the exact same setup as that as well. Started with 570, now with the 1080ti. I cant complain.
@@Roost426 mine aswell ;)
@@Roost426 same mine has been at 4.5 for 10 years on a water cooled setup and its still going strong.
I've had mine running at 4.5g for more than 10 years and this beast is still going! All on the same Corsair AIO water cooler too! Amazing how long this has lasted me.
This desktop started on a 570GTX and has outlasted many generations of GPUs over the last decade! I just upgraded the GPU to a 6650XT.
I'll probably finally upgrade to a 12600k this year on black Friday. It'll be hard to say goodbye to my old 2500k friend lol. This chip is legendary!
How is the 6650XT and 2500k working? I just ordered one to replace my GTX 770 that's paired with my 4.5Ghz 2500k.
@@scupking I never ended up using them together. I picked up a 3600 Ryzen and motherboard for $100 on a pre Black Friday sale. So now I have a 3600 running with the 6650xt.
Seems good so far but I haven't really tried to overclock or push it yet.
I did put the 6650xt in with the 2500k just for a day and seemed fine though.
@@missconductx awwww I was hoping for a 2500k / 6650xt result lol. I sae others running it with 70+ fps on some games, and 120 fps on things like tomb raider.
Curios how long the AIO will last, recommended to replace about 5 years. I’ve had an H105(I think?) on my 2700x oc 4.2gz since new and the temps are so good in hard to believe(well below 60c usually still in the mid to high 40c
My daughter uses an old rig with the 2500k. I bought it brand new back in 2011. Currently have it OC to 4.17 with an AIO cooler and have never had any issues in the past 5 years. I'm sure I could get more out of it but I see no need. Truly a legend!
Great video, as always!
I had an i7-2600k because my order got mixed up. Originally I had ordered the 2500k :D
It was stunning, how good that CPU was! A whole new world to me, back in the day! It absolutely blew me away.
Today I'm rocking an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and I don't know what my next CPU will be.
My wife has the 8700k and that thing is still a beast, runs smooth af
Thanks for sharing mate! Looks like we used same CPUs along the way haha! Are you sticking with or looking at 7000 series ?
@@nexus_tech Ah great! :D Man to be honest the 7000 series are looking so tempting! But since I had to give up my entrepreneurship (a small IT-Service), I gotta count every penny.
R9 3900x?
@@koreannom Oh lol, must've been very late :D I'm gonna edit that rn
@@gerald8573 hahahaha, for a moment I thought there was another whole generation of CPUs I didn't know about xD
Great video mate thank you from Australia. Yes I've owned this exact chip I5 2500k. I brought it in 2011 when released and it is STILL going strong today. Same Z68-UD4/B3 motherboard as I originally had in there and also a GTX 680 2GB. Oringinal Gskill sniper ddr3 1600mhz ram, 8gb. All cooled in a corsair 600T mid tower with a H100i twin fan AIO cooler. It's been my only gaming PC since 2011. I have had kids since and thus PC took a back seat for a good while only playing a bit of war thunder here and there on the weekends. Until.... I found Escape from tarkov which my brother in law introduced me to on his "new" R7 5600x cpu, b450 mobo, 32gb ram over 4 slots. And a 6600gt card. Well.... without a word of a lie. I fell in love with the game so came home to attempt it on my machine.... my gtx680 struggled on high but ran one map perfectly so, I went back down the OC journey I once took years ago. I've upped mu vcore to 1.36, 1.9v on my ram with matched timings, I've upgraded the ram to a second hand pair of 8gb sticks so now I have 1600mhz running on xmp profile 1 standard ( stable ) but the CPU I have bumped to a X 48 @ 104mhz per core. And also updated my gpu to a 3060ti 12gb card. Let me say, cpu z is punching out 655 avg on the same test you did and escape from tarkov.... has pissed my brother in law off that my PC runs it better than his.... deadset. He hasn't played with me since hahahaha. Buy yes awesome chip, do you know its cook off temp ? I get a 4 cores at FL and I'm sitting at 68 - 72 Celsius. I think the death temp from mem is near 95 so. I'm well happy hahaha can post legit stat's to if no one believes how good this chip over clock's. I'm even thinking of a touch more vcore and maybe a 107, 49 X :) your video was EXACTLY what I needed to see thabk you mate
Ah! That was really nice to read, Thank you kindly! I'm glad to hear that it's still going strong, those were legendary chips for their time :) Say you was to upgrade, Intel or AMD?
@@nexus_tech nowadays intel has lost its groove and AMD is the nrw trend setter.the price of their chips is perfect in comparison.( from an outsider looking in ) I used to be agaisnt AMD with a passion but no reason to be now. So, AMD,
I bought the i5 2500k the day it was released. I still have it and it’s still being used in my bedroom paired with a 2080 on a cheap dell oem board. I still game with it. Fine for everything I play. And I have never overclocked it
Dude, thanks! That ”im happy” at the end made me happy too! :))
I am still using i5-2500k. I bought one after release with Intel DZ68DB mainboard. It was in my desktop for many years and now it is in my NAS machine - 6xHDD ZFS Raid Z2 with 32GB RAM. Works great. Even manages to stream big things thru emby.
Love this chip, got one brand new for a build back in mid-2011 with 8gb of ram (1600mhz) and a gtx 460. On day one with the stock cooler, I overclocked it to 4.5ghz. Since then I have upgraded the GPU every few years, gtx 560 ti, gtx 570, gtx660, gtx 660 sli, Titan Xp (2017 model) but the CPU has always been consistent. A couple of years ago I added an aftermarket cooler and pushed it to 4.7ghz with no issues and a big drop in temperature. Last year I switched the ram out for 16gb of 1866mhz and the CPU is still going. Only Kingdom Come Deliverance could humble the CPU when you increased the draw distance. We will never see the sort of price to performance of this chip again, although the Alder Lake gen is finally starting to make it look tempting.
Thanks for sharing mate! I kept the 2700K for years and years before switching to AMD for 3900X, when I sold the PC, it had 16GB of Memory, SSD and 980ti, still capable of playing most titles on high, but started with GTX570! Good old rig 🙂
Good to see I'm not the only one still gaming on an i5-2500K and I'm even running it stock, paired with a 1660ti, same mobo
Love it, bro! I'm still rocking my i5-2500k @ 4.5Ghz on that same Asus board with an MSI 560ti. Just bought an Asus Tuf 3090ti last Friday, hoping for some BF deals on an i5-13600k and Asus Tuf Z790, icue h150i elite and Corsair 5000d airflow and some RAM. Probably stick with D4...
After seeing this though I think I should upgrade the 560ti and let my kids use the old rig.
Mike! Thanks for checking out the content! Gotta love Sandy Bridge chips! Wowers - going full steam ahead with your RIG, good luck and let me know what you ended up with :)
Cool to see that these legacy cpus still work great with modern software !
I had a I7 2600K, then upgraded to 3770K and that platform was 6 years in usage. After that now I'm running on a Xeon E5 2690 v2 CPU with 10 Cores and didn't regret this update. It was a cheap system with still power in in it
Hello mate! Thanks for sharing - Did you overclock the Xeon ?
@@nexus_tech yes I did, FSB raised to 110MHz but still going for more
People are now doing retro reviews of the CPU that I'm still daily driving at 4.5 GHz with a GTX 970. Although as far as I remember with a voltage offset, not a set voltage. I assume it aids longevity. Haven't tried the brand newest games but reinstalled Snowrunner yesterday and it runs like a charm at 1080p mid/high settings. In 2011 I thought I would have to replace it around 2015, in 2015 (when I did replace the original GTX 560 Ti) I thought I would have to replace it around 2019, in 2019 I just gave up on planning an upgrade schedule and started marvelling at every extra year I could get out of this little wonderboy.
Thanks for sharing your experience mate! Love to hear you're still rocking one! I owed 2700K for long years and only upgraded to Ryzen9 for those threads needed with Blender etc...Are you planning on sticking with Intel for your next CPU ? :)
@@nexus_tech I've grown to dislike Intel's business practices but actually I've had a 1650v2 (nearly identical to 4930K) and an NVME on a PCIe adapter (requires a patched BIOS and Win 7 installation if you're not using a newer Win version) lying around since last year, the motherboard I got for it at a later point just happened to be faulty and I haven't yet found another one for a decent price. It's less a necessary upgrade and more plain old curiosity and an opportunity to check quad channel memory, a hilarious number of PCIe lanes, SLI (going to get another 970) and on the occasion also 3D Vision (already have a monitor, just need a cheap set of glasses and transmitter) off the bucket list. Planning on completing the build this fall and then use it for only two years or so before an actual upgrade with actual new parts (Ryzen 7000 3D or even Ryzen 8000 by that point?).
amazing chip and amazing video :D! One thing that I reccomend is to NEVER use more than 4x MSAA in GTA V because its extremely heavy (like hairworks in the witcher 3) and you get no real visual benefit other than having half the fps. I'd reccomend to not use it at all if playing in 4K because at such high resolution you don't really need antialiasing.
Im still rocking my i5-2500k thats been in my first and only build so far way back in 2012 and with that same mobo too..started with a 570sc then 770 then 1080ti.. no issues at all!
Thank you for sharing 🙂 Have you considered upgrading soon ?
i used a i5-2500k until last month (got an i5-10400k from a friend). it is still performing well. never had any issues with it. not sure what to do with it now. frame it or use it for something 'retro'...
@@nexus_tech yea, i been looking into upgrading to the i7-13700k and possibly a used 3090ti
Just about the same setup except for the Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 motherboard since 2012 running almost 24/7/365 with ASUS E-Z overclock @ 4.2ghz
Only just now upgrading to a 13700K setup mostly for productivity reasons. Still plays games at 1080p and desktops well enough. Though the 2018 Spectre/Meltdown patches didn't do us any favors performance wise.
Now it's 2024 and i just bought cheap two PC's with same motherboard and processor. Never had it till now, i'm really surprized how smooth the pc's are working.
Had my 2500k since it came out in 2011, re-used a 7900gs at the time, then budget 950 gtx, HDD to SSD, OC'd cpu to 4.4, OC'd 950 gtx, 8->16gb, finally 2060 rtx (paired well with a chip so old), runs everything, beast in its final form.
Hi Jared! Thanks for sharing, that's one awesome journey! Did you consider upgrading to newer platform?
@@nexus_tech No, but the 2060rtx probably completes the journey. My last two CPU were cele 600@900, core 2 duo 6400, then this godly CPU. Nothing since has been needed or too exciting. Hoping for a milestone with better power efficiency. If I stick with intel, 5nm might make sense.
I have few of them on 4.4ghz on air and one on 5.5ghz 1.45v on water. Collecting them for fun.
mine got to 5.8 somehow, I think mine was blessed by a god or something, I still have it in a drawer
I have used a i7 2600 (before i switched to Ryzen 5 4500) and it was still decent honestly shame it didn't have a better motherboard and 16GB of DDR3 around me :/
I have this CPU just sitting on my cupboard, waiting for parts. I am just happy that it seems to run older than 2019 titles just fine.
Hello mate! Yup, still more than capable :)
I bought the i5 2500k the day it was released. I still have it and it’s still being used in my bedroom paired with a 2080 on a cheap dell oem board. I still game with it. Fine for everything I play. And I have never overclocked it. My main rig is a r9 3900x also
Thanks for sharing! It's awesome and still relevant for some games :)
@@nexus_tech yes sir. I play rust,Fortnite and Kerbal space program on that pc and the 2500k still gets it done. And good video I meant to add
Recently had to build a pc for general use at home, so i thought, lets make my teenage years dream pc, got a z77 motherboard, a 500gb ssd, an i5 2500k, 16gb ram, my old gtx 1060 6gb and a nice box, put a diy watercooler from ebay parts, installed windows 7 with extended kernel and i love it more than my gaming rig 😂
this chip isnt much slower than my Ryzen 5 1600 AF, i score 461.6 and 3711.4 multi on cpuZ at 4.25ghz on 1.375v and 1.15soc, comparatively that i5 is a great chip for gaming
I had two i5 2500k with an asus p8p68, both were oc to 5 ghz, both still works fine, golden chips !
thanks for reviewing! so interesting
I've been trying to push my cpu to 4.5 and struggling to get it stable. Everything id read has so many more tweaks involved. This is simpler and my 4.5 is stable with decent temps under full load. Thanks for sharing!
I'm using an asus sabertooth z77 board.
Good to hear! I had P67 Sabretooth before, those are awesome boards :) What GPU are you using ?
Take all settings of auto and have them on manual.
@@nexus_tech gtx 970
I'll be honest, I looked this video up because sometimes I get nostalgic for my 2500k. It's in a gaming PC I built out of old parts. I gave it to a buddy who never had a proper gaming PC, and it's still rocking. Shine on you crazy diamond!
el pc de mi hijo con un 2500k a 4.3 mhz , asus z68 pro gen3 y gtx 970 , vuelan, . 2500k hasta el final de los tiempos...jejeje
i love how it performs with the GTX 690 :D
Now for the same testing but with i7 2700k and next i7 4790k
Don't forget 3770K ;) still a decent chip nowadays
I5 2500k was a great CPU. One of the the best.
No doubt, I had the 2700K, Intel really did great job with Sandy Bridge, perhaps too good :)
@@nexus_tech I had the 2550k, and later got a really nice 2500k
Still running my 2500k at 5 GHz, was at 4.8 GHz, but pushed it to 5 GHz with water cooling. I reckon it will go higher too.
Thanks for sharing mate, that's awesome, I will attempt 5GHz at some point too :)
Take all settings off auto and adjust setting from there. I have a z68 Asrock board.
Would you be interested in a i7 2700k?? I have one that works and would like to see it in a video because I don't have a motherboard that can handle the monster
U can buy Z77 mobos for 20-30€ 🤷♂️
@@nikolakarovic5964 i wish they actually were €20 for a decent Z77 board that fully works.
I still have my 2500k, the mobo it was in died. This CPU was such a beast, I ran it a 4.8ghz overclock with NO OVERVOLTING 100% stable, it would hit 5ghz with some overvolting. I had a giant scythe mugen 2 cooler, and I honestly ran this thing with no cpu cooler fan for like 3 yeas because the fan clips jut disappeared one day messing with stuff. 4.8ghz, under 75C, with a passive cooling setup and no overvolting, LEGENDARY CPU
Oh no! Did you ever replace the mobo? Yes, I believe those were last chips with soldered TIM before intel swapped to thermal paste, might explain a thing or two!
@@nexus_techNo, the thing has just been sitting there, Ive been too lazy to gt a mobo for it, I probably should though, that 2500k still has life. Idk how much lga 1155 boards even are anymore
i5 2500 K @4200Mhz + Asus Sabertooth P67 + 16 GB RAM since 2011 and i still using.
Thanks for sharing mate :) What GPU are you using ?
@@nexus_tech GeForce 8600 GT -> GTX 660 -> GTX 980 -> GTX 1080. PSU Fractal Design Tesla 550 W.
My mom is still running this, was my old CPU before upgradind to 3700X.
Running at 4.2 GHz daily with no voltage increase since ages. Its like a default setting for me there.
2500k is more than enough for normal user without playing games, but unfortunately intel HD 3000 on chip graphics card freezes and restarts computer often while watching youtube films, with discrete gc everything works well, it happens bc hd 3000 has very old 2016 drivers without support, it startged from firefox 78 and other browsers around june 2020 when WebRender feature for intel HD chips had been implemented
Mine works as a charm, no issues at all. I use my 2500k as multimedia pc especially for listening music, youtube an simmilar things and it runns smooth.
I have a i5-2500k today on stock (can't OC because of board limitations) and I can't afford to upgrade
Hi Nexus Tech ! (i dont speak english very well) What cooler do u use on this 2500k ?
And how many RAM have u added ?
I have see we can go at 32 Go RAM with this pocessor and motherboard, cadenced at 1066/ 1333mhz.
( My config is
ASUS P8Z77-V LX2,
Intel Core i5 2500K,
Nvdia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MSI,
Kingston 16 Go Ram 160 mhz )
Planning to get an OEM second hand Intel PC, because my GPU is bandwidth limited in a Pcie 2.0 x 16. R7 260x 1gb was underutilized in control, rift breaker and doom 2016. Overclocked the following stuff: fx 8300, athlon 760k, phenom Ii 955T, and Oland to Bonaire gpu series. No luck with Intel.
Lol are you genuinely running a 1gb card today? How is that even possible. I was going to mix and mash an old second hand rig together for more relaxing games to be played on my tv, using the 260x 2gb with a 2500k. They pair nicely.
I will also be using the Nimez drivers too
@@re2590 Yes. GTX 460, R7 260X, R5 240. During the study at home covid period, I bought and modified several low end second hand OEM computers for my kids for online schooling and gaming at home. Some game are well optimized to run at 1 gb VRAM. Just a lot of trial and error. Nimez not needed for GCN 1.0 and above. I used Nimez 21.5.2 for a HD 5770.
Moved too a Ryzen 5600 December 1st from this chip at 4.5 ghz, keeping my 1660 super for a while longer.
Gonna be my testrig too mess about with some stuff, currently as a testrig it sits at 3.7 ghz on all cpu cores as im using a stock cpu cooler.
Performance simply wasn't there for borderlands 3 too play smoothly & gta online.
Thanks for sharing - what is happening to it ? Sold?
@@nexus_tech The I5 2500k ?
Gonna keep it around as a testing rig with my old motherboard & ram too mess about with from time too time with graphics cards & older benchmarks like 3dmark 2001se, 03 etc...
Don't think I'll be able too sell the motherboard as the onboard sound is dead & i had some weird issues with usb as well at one point few months ago so it might be a goner in a while anyway.
Ram is just two different pairs of 1600 mhz 4 gb sticks so nothing special there really pair of red a-data xpg i think they are called. & corsair vengence with the tall coolers on there.
Motherboard is a Asus p8 z77-v lx so not exactly a great board anyway.
Atm it's sitting with the stock cooler running at 3.7 ghz & Atlas OS 20H2 i think it was on an old 160 gb mechanical hdd.
1660 super I'm using for my main pc for now if you are wondering about that.
(Motherboard atm is a MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX i bought used for 850 sek or about 80 usd June this year.)
16 gb kingston fury 3200 mhz kit also bought around june for 61 isd or 649 sek, got this new rather then a used kit.
Cpu cooler is the Noctua nh-u12p se2 which i just bought the AM4 mounting kit for like 99 sek or 10$ works great on the 5600 & cost basically nothing.
Keeping it until i can set aside money for something with rtx 2080ti ish performance either used or new, & then it's gonna go into my lil brothers system probably which will be getting a gtx 970 tomorrow i picked up used for 60$.
I still got my i5 2500k had it since 2013
Are you planning on upgrading soon ?
@@nexus_tech I did Ryzen 9 5900x
Lol I see so many people with decent gpu's in with cpu, even up until recently :O I missed a lot on pc's over the years with life situations, ended up buying a console and stuck with it up until 2 years ago, bought a 5800x with a 6600xt and 16gb 3800mhz cl14 ram. Been happy since.
But I did buy this exact cpu to pair up with another oldie a 260x Dco2 OC 2gb gpu, for a budget build. One I can use on my tv and less competitive games you could say. I saw a few games run on this gpu, it's ok. Nothing elite or amazing, its just for some older games off gog like dynasty warriors and stuff so should handle it fine I guess. But surprised to see so many people using 2060's, 970's etc, haha I would have thought this cpu would have bottlenecked loads.
I saw someone even testing up to a 3070 and still getting 70-100 fps lol. I don't know why I spend so much money on my 5800x now lol
too bad 4 cores isn't enough nowadays, causing stuttering on games, which is even worse than having constant 30fps
У меня дома такой же пк с одинаковой материнской платой как на вашем видео asus P8p67 pro и i5 2500k разогнан до 4.4. gtx 960 2gb, 16gb ddr3 2133. Этот процессор в разгоне до сих пор тянет все новые игры.
what about the 2550k? lmao I just got this cpu in a trash picked pc lets see what it can do.
cpu-z score is same as my i3 9100f
My 2500K was a golden chip. I remember putting it to 4.2ghz without touching anything at the stock voltage 1.2 and it was stable. Then with a better cooler had I had her at 4.8ghz for daily use and even ran some cinebench R15 at 5ghz with a score of 638.
Could you repeat this with a 6650xt if possible please?
Right!!!
Got myself one for free.
Maybe,will follow your lead, but, with a simple motherboard....
No, We don't overclock. Because overclocking is just outdated method. 😅
eh, you gotta get that 5.0ghz my man!
Hello mate! That's a challenge, hmmm. Why not! :)
i overclock mine to 4.8ghz
I have a golden 2500K which hits 5.2GHz stable with water. Probably is capable for even more, just would need even beefier cooling since I need to go above 1.5V.