Monday, July 18, 2011

Oh Intel Core i5-2500K Processor 3.3GHz 6 MB Cache Socket LGA1155

Intel BOX80623I52500K

This chip (Intel's Sandy Bridge) is a significant step from the prior Intel i5/i7 model (Nehalem) in that it runs real cool, and is simple to overclock, and is fast. I have it comfortably OC'd at 4.5Ghz (from 3.3Ghz) with a $30 air cooled heatsink. Video encoding that used to take 90 minutes on my old 2.4Ghz dual core PC takes me 10 minutes on my new PC with this CPU. I NEVER OC'd before in my life, but this chip is simple to work with if you have a half decent motherboard. I just went into my bios and bumped the CPU multiplier from 33 to 45 and rebooted. Runs fast and cool at ... Intel Core i5 Processor i5-2500K 3.3GHz 6MB LGA1155 CPU All Core i5 processors have Intel Turbo Boost Technology Quad-core processor delivers four-way multicore processing via parallelism resulting in more efficient use of processor ... »» Read more...

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