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i5 6600 worth it?

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My brother is running a 2500k (at stock; I know!) on the stock HSF with a 1060 3GB. He just got an HP Omen 32 inch 1440p monitor. He's wanting to upgrade his mobo+cpu and I found a great deal on a new i5 6600 (non K) for $60 new in the box. Then, I would need to get a cheap board and DDR4, so figure $200 all in. I really don't think this will do much for him, do you? At stock, sure. But, I could just as easily install a nicer HSF like a $40 AIO and overclock the 2500k and it should trade blows, or beat, the i5 6600. What do you think?

Thanks!
 
I wouldn't do the first. Either spend the extra amount to go bigger or just get heatsink you plan on reusing.
 
mazeroth said:
My brother is running a 2500k (at stock; I know!) on the stock HSF with a 1060 3GB. He just got an HP Omen 32 inch 1440p monitor. He's wanting to upgrade his mobo+cpu and I found a great deal on a new i5 6600 (non K) for $60 new in the box. Then, I would need to get a cheap board and DDR4, so figure $200 all in. I really don't think this will do much for him, do you? At stock, sure. But, I could just as easily install a nicer HSF like a $40 AIO and overclock the 2500k and it should trade blows, or beat, the i5 6600. What do you think?

Thanks!
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not worth, nobody in sane mind would go with a locked quad core without HT at this age.. pick a cheap cooler (cryorig H7, Reeven Justice, Thermalright TRUE direct) and overclock the hell out of it until he can afford to go full modern system.
 
2500K to 6600 is more of a sidegrade than an upgrade. You'll may see a performance difference at stock but OC is different.

You'll also see platform improvements. USB3, SATA3, M2. Not sure if that's important to you.

Also, don't know if the 1060 can reliably output more than 60fps at 1440p...
 
I’m going to go against the trend and make a case for the 6600...


First off, it’s a Skylake CPU....uh...and....well....the sky is blue. So are some lakes. So it color coordinates better than the 2500k.

And the word Sky is nice. Sand is just blah. I don’t like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

Seriously, I would just try to buy a 2600K or 3770K depending on your mainboard, and maybe some good DDR3-2400.

I’d you’re going to do a motherboard up rebuild then go for the latest tech.
 
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I did a quick test yesterday. I also have a 2500k so that made it easy. Googling shows a non-K 6600 gets about 600 on Cinebench R15. My 2500k, at stock like my brother's, gets about 530. Taking my 2500k to 4.1 ghz, which is easy, gets me 600 on Cinebench, which would yield exactly the same results as the 6600. I'm sure his 2500k will go 4.3-4.5, which will put him past the 6600. The choice seems obvious. Thanks for the input!
 
$60 is a good price thou. It's roughly half what I would have to pay for a second hand 3770K here in the UK.
 
Stock vs Stock, it would be a 20% performance improvement at-best, and you don't add any additional threads/cores to avoid hitching from more threaded games.

When both are overclocked, the difference would be 10-15% (because Sandy overclocks a bit better).

I would just save up until you can afford a core i5 8600k. That's the first respectable upgrade for you.
 
You got the right plan. Overclock the hell outta that 2500K, even if you have to spend 25 dollars on cheap aftermarket cooler.
His next upgrade should be a better GPU and then a ryzen 2600/2600X build
 
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