My 2600K is almost fourteen years old, I bought it at launch, and it has been used daily over that time period for multiples of hours. The 2600K has been sleepless and indefatigable in its operations. First as the beating heart of my gaming rig, and now as the beating heart of my Linux daily driver / home server / development environment. I have more powerful processors, but the 2600K will remain at the heart of my computer network, for as long as it can physically function.
Nice, I swapped to a 2600K as a holdover while I was between systems, and I decided to keep using it from 2018 through mid 2020. Worked very well for me, only moved on from it when I made the move over to AMD with the 1600. I wish I still had the original chip I used back then but I must’ve resold it. Great CPU, still plenty capable today.
I am watching this video on my main work PC...you guess it, an i7-2600K powered one!. I bought it in 2012 and use it daily for 8-12 hours. I have only replaced a power supply and have done yearly cleanups on it. I have replaced all the HDDs with SSDs over the years and keeps running great!
thanks for this video ... i purchased this cpu 2600k in 2016 and is still working ... a lot of benchmark games in my channel like horizon forbidden west - the last of us - cyberpunk - emulators ....
Still using the i7 2600k although mine is overclocked to 4.4 Ghz with 32 Gb DDR3 & a RTX 3060 , still a usable Chip , Elden Ring , Spiderman Remastered, Age of Empires 4 , Assassin's Creed Valhalla , God of War & Uncharted 4 all pretty much playable. I've played The Last of Us Part 1 on it as well and it's playable as well but you're gonna be stuck on low 30's with that one. Alan wake 2 is the only game not working for me at the moment due to AVX2 and City Skylines 2 is playable however the longer you play it basically goes into unplayable territory.
I agree, there’s some instances where the chip is just too old but if you’re willing to give it the time it needs to think and don’t really feel the need to upgrade it’s definitely still capable. It’s like the modern day Q6600.
This gives me confidence that my 9800X3D today will likely be still playable in games 15 years later ... coz I aim to keep my new rig with only GPU upgrades for next 15 years!
Very stout CPU and yea CPU progression as a whole has been providing diminishing returns as of late. Unless some complete shift away from x86 happens in favor of ARM I see no reason why that CPU wouldn't last you a long time to come. Thanks for watching!
I have a 2600k, 1TB SSD, 16GB Ram, and aa MSI GTX 970 OC. I can run over watch 2 and fortnite on max. I'm not a huge PC gamer, but this easily runs everything I need to do. Ive had this PC for years.
The stutters happen when the PC is compiling shaders and the 2600K is very old for that, 4 cores and 8 threads technically are the absolute minimum for gaming but they struggle with shader compilation. Vulkan API is a must as well.
I just got a sytem with an 2600 and a MSI 1060 6GB for free and im using an FX 8350 with RX 570 4GB which one is better to use?many people say 2600 is better because FX 8350 is not really an 8 core cpu but an 4 core and another 4 half cores so idk what to do
The 2600K was and still is a better CPU, the 8350 was a great value back in the day, however the multi-threading on the i7 as well as the higher performance of it's 4 cores makes it a better choice than the 8350. If it were me, I'd use the 2600. But since you have both, I'd experiment! See which one suits your workload better. Mix and match some parts around.
Thanks man ill figure it out :D one more question MSIGTX 1060 Gaming X or my current Strix 570? 1060 has 2 more gbs of vram but 570 has just a tiny bit higher clocks@@eternaliam
Going off of research, 1060 is about 20% faster than the 570. AMD's 500 series was mainly appealing as a solid yet serviceable undercut to NVIDIA's offerings. But the 1060 is still the quicker card.@@sh4rrppl4ys49
@@saricubra2867 Oh, I'm aware, the commenter was asking between the two cards he had. I never had the 570 so I can't speak to it and can only go off of research. All I can speak to is the 580 (which I still use) is still plenty good and capable.
hey bro i have i3 2100 and gtx 750 ti should i buy i7 2700k ? i don't use for some hard works i only play cs2 on lowest setting with my pc i have 20-70 fps and i want 150-200 fps will i get you think?
i'd consider 32gb of RAM if load times are that big of an issue and textures aren't loading fast into vram. I'm pretty shure that CPU could work something in the order of 5 to 10% better if another 16gb of ram are thrown in the mix. Also, a GTX1080, or Rx 6650XT, or RTX3060 should be as far as anyone would wanna go with this CPU... if you have money for a better/faster GPU, spend less on CPU and more on a DDR4 used 6core 12thread 3rd gen Ryzen that WILL work better
That’s how I see things as well, the only reason I used the 3080 was because it was the only thing I had that was beefy enough to let the CPU stretch its legs 😅 I would’ve thrown 32 in as I had 4x8GB sticks, however the board used only had 2 slots so 16GB was the most I could throw in there, while I could’ve bought a 2x16 kit, that alone would’ve been more expensive than the CPU itself, so it wasn’t necessarily worth it.
CPUs have improved computational power at a terrible rate, these cpus arent far behind new gen cpus,,, the problem is the bus speed and memory speed and pcix access n such like that have improved greatly------ so for some types of gaming, older cpus may not be totally garbage yet
I agree, these things are still plenty capable for gaming. Beyond that though, in use cases such as rendering video and cpu intensive benchmarks these things have aged appropriately. If I wasn’t into the whole film/youtube jazz I’d probably would still be rocking a 2600K haha
My 2600K is almost fourteen years old, I bought it at launch, and it has been used daily over that time period for multiples of hours. The 2600K has been sleepless and indefatigable in its operations. First as the beating heart of my gaming rig, and now as the beating heart of my Linux daily driver / home server / development environment. I have more powerful processors, but the 2600K will remain at the heart of my computer network, for as long as it can physically function.
Nice, I swapped to a 2600K as a holdover while I was between systems, and I decided to keep using it from 2018 through mid 2020. Worked very well for me, only moved on from it when I made the move over to AMD with the 1600. I wish I still had the original chip I used back then but I must’ve resold it. Great CPU, still plenty capable today.
My main PC is a i7 2600k @ 4.6Ghz, 24GB ram, GTX750. Ubuntu Linux here.
It's a beast.
will it catch up to my i7 11700k its 4.6 ghz up to 5 ghz
@@Budgetbuilds449ask again in 11+ years, if your 11th gen is still working, I have no doubt the 2600k will be there
@@Budgetbuilds449 uh no cuz his cpu is like a decade old
I am watching this video on my main work PC...you guess it, an i7-2600K powered one!. I bought it in 2012 and use it daily for 8-12 hours. I have only replaced a power supply and have done yearly cleanups on it. I have replaced all the HDDs with SSDs over the years and keeps running great!
thanks for this video ... i purchased this cpu 2600k in 2016 and is still working ... a lot of benchmark games in my channel like horizon forbidden west - the last of us - cyberpunk - emulators ....
Still using a i7 2600k till this day paired with a evga 1070ti ftw2 still is a beast in 2024
I can see the GHGTV influence! Great video man, keep it up. Interested to see more
Appreciate it, thanks for watching!
Good video, chapters would really help to be able to jump around and watch the different games again! Thanks for testing the 2600k with a beefy GPU.
Thanks! Also great suggestion, I’ll be sure to go through my videos and make chapters for each game tested.
Still using the i7 2600k although mine is overclocked to 4.4 Ghz with 32 Gb DDR3 & a RTX 3060 , still a usable Chip , Elden Ring , Spiderman Remastered, Age of Empires 4 , Assassin's Creed Valhalla , God of War & Uncharted 4 all pretty much playable. I've played The Last of Us Part 1 on it as well and it's playable as well but you're gonna be stuck on low 30's with that one. Alan wake 2 is the only game not working for me at the moment due to AVX2 and City Skylines 2 is playable however the longer you play it basically goes into unplayable territory.
I agree, there’s some instances where the chip is just too old but if you’re willing to give it the time it needs to think and don’t really feel the need to upgrade it’s definitely still capable. It’s like the modern day Q6600.
Elden ring 60 fps on 2k?
@@TECNOBYT it gets into the high 50 fps and hits 60 fps cap a bunch of times but there are some drops in the 40's depending on the location and action
2600k, celeron 300a, q6600. the goat trilogy
This gives me confidence that my 9800X3D today will likely be still playable in games 15 years later ... coz I aim to keep my new rig with only GPU upgrades for next 15 years!
Very stout CPU and yea CPU progression as a whole has been providing diminishing returns as of late. Unless some complete shift away from x86 happens in favor of ARM I see no reason why that CPU wouldn't last you a long time to come.
Thanks for watching!
I have a 2600k, 1TB SSD, 16GB Ram, and aa MSI GTX 970 OC. I can run over watch 2 and fortnite on max. I'm not a huge PC gamer, but this easily runs everything I need to do. Ive had this PC for years.
The stutters happen when the PC is compiling shaders and the 2600K is very old for that, 4 cores and 8 threads technically are the absolute minimum for gaming but they struggle with shader compilation. Vulkan API is a must as well.
Highest gpu you would pair with it..?
if i told people on other games that my current rig is a prebuilt hp machine with a i7 2600k and a rtx 3050 they would always say: wtf
I just got a sytem with an 2600 and a MSI 1060 6GB for free and im using an FX 8350 with RX 570 4GB which one is better to use?many people say 2600 is better because FX 8350 is not really an 8 core cpu but an 4 core and another 4 half cores so idk what to do
The 2600K was and still is a better CPU, the 8350 was a great value back in the day, however the multi-threading on the i7 as well as the higher performance of it's 4 cores makes it a better choice than the 8350. If it were me, I'd use the 2600. But since you have both, I'd experiment! See which one suits your workload better. Mix and match some parts around.
Thanks man ill figure it out :D one more question MSIGTX 1060 Gaming X or my current Strix 570? 1060 has 2 more gbs of vram but 570 has just a tiny bit higher clocks@@eternaliam
Going off of research, 1060 is about 20% faster than the 570. AMD's 500 series was mainly appealing as a solid yet serviceable undercut to NVIDIA's offerings. But the 1060 is still the quicker card.@@sh4rrppl4ys49
@@eternaliam And the RX580 8GB is way better than the GTX1060, can run everything with 8GB.
@@saricubra2867 Oh, I'm aware, the commenter was asking between the two cards he had. I never had the 570 so I can't speak to it and can only go off of research. All I can speak to is the 580 (which I still use) is still plenty good and capable.
As long as avx2 not required it can run
My i7 2600k
Motherboar Lenovo is6xm rev1.0
16GB RAM DDR3
GTX750ti
It's a beast in 2024
Sandy Bridge should be renamed to Fine Wine with how well it’s aged
I miss my 2700k quite a bit
thanks
hey bro i have i3 2100 and gtx 750 ti should i buy i7 2700k ? i don't use for some hard works i only play cs2 on lowest setting with my pc i have 20-70 fps and i want 150-200 fps will i get you think?
With a 750Ti? No you won’t even come close.
I had 2600k and I sold it year ago for a r7 3700x what a beast it was back in the days
Legendary CPU, still rocks if you give it some help, like a modern day Q6600.
The best CPU the Old 2600k
i'd consider 32gb of RAM if load times are that big of an issue and textures aren't loading fast into vram. I'm pretty shure that CPU could work something in the order of 5 to 10% better if another 16gb of ram are thrown in the mix.
Also, a GTX1080, or Rx 6650XT, or RTX3060 should be as far as anyone would wanna go with this CPU... if you have money for a better/faster GPU, spend less on CPU and more on a DDR4 used 6core 12thread 3rd gen Ryzen that WILL work better
That’s how I see things as well, the only reason I used the 3080 was because it was the only thing I had that was beefy enough to let the CPU stretch its legs 😅
I would’ve thrown 32 in as I had 4x8GB sticks, however the board used only had 2 slots so 16GB was the most I could throw in there, while I could’ve bought a 2x16 kit, that alone would’ve been more expensive than the CPU itself, so it wasn’t necessarily worth it.
CPUs have improved computational power at a terrible rate, these cpus arent far behind new gen cpus,,, the problem is the bus speed and memory speed and pcix access n such like that have improved greatly------ so for some types of gaming, older cpus may not be totally garbage yet
I agree, these things are still plenty capable for gaming. Beyond that though, in use cases such as rendering video and cpu intensive benchmarks these things have aged appropriately. If I wasn’t into the whole film/youtube jazz I’d probably would still be rocking a 2600K haha
Starfield would have put the 2600k on his knees 😂
So I’ve heard, I’ll be sure to incorporate it in future tests 👍