I've been running my 2600K since 2011 as my main system - recently upgraded to a GTX 1660 Super and it games well, can't complain!

I overclocked my i7 2600k to 4.5ghz on Asus sabertooth p67 motherboard, rtx 2070 super, 1tb hhd, 1tb 2.5 SSD, 16gb ddr3 1600mhz, liquid cooler keeps it around 50c and it's working great, spent $550 total , I play mostly VR

the 2600K is a beast! i got a mini itx corsair 250D with a i7 2600 and a gtx 970 great budget build

Never ever would I have imagined to have bought a processor that would be stuck to my PC for 10 years, but here we are. Still going strong and good enough for my needs. Might as well frame it when I eventually upgrade, lol.

I came across an upgrade over my old PC got a FREE Lian-Li case with AOI & P8Z68 Gen3 Asus MB --- Thanks to your video I made a clear map of components to go for on budget - Just got i7 2600K for 80$ Shipped next week picking up Corsair 32gb ram &meanwhile hunting for a deal on 980 as you showed good enough for me. I play old games like WoW and Diablo 2 some D3 and PoE a little but my older PC couldnt handle it so it wasnt a enjoyable experience. Looks like if this runs Cyberpunk playable I should be more then fine for my games of choise. Thanks for sharing build

I use a non K one in an old Acer Veriton system.The CPU is original and still uses the original Acer board and PSU and i gave it 16GB of RAM and my old R9 270x 4GB GPU and it's still able to play pretty much any game that i play on my main computer.Really like the regular basic office computer look on the outside and the performance that still lays inside

This shows how good invation was and how overpowerd these cpu were even many 7 to 8 year old gpu can play manuy games at 30 to 60 fps that means for a good experince you can go for a buget bulid or go for a higher end bulid that will give you good experince for next 7 to 8 years atleast

thanks for putting gpu and cpu usage in the vid as well :) well yeah sandy bridge is getting long in the tooth, for modern gaming i would say sandy bridge is the minimum, early ryzen chips are probably the best bang for buck platforms right now, excluding xeons because they require good motherboards which could eat a lot of the budget if you cannot find a good deal on one of them.

Just built a system with a 2600k over locked to 4.7 ghz and have similar results with a rx580. I get steady 45 FPS on high/ultra settings on Cyberpunk and 30fps on star citizen. I am blown a away by how this 11 year old processor is still kicking ass!

It is a really good cpu, considering that its 10 years old.

Once again like watching ur youtube video another good video hooe u r well

I also am now on 2600k and MSI motherboard on Z68 chipset. Well I am not a gamer and not rendering videos on it, but for all other tasks it's doing absolutely fine! The only issue I am having with motherboard is that under some circumstances, after moving PC to other place it doesn't want to launch, which can be caused by circuit damage or bga chipset damage, but after moving it into right position it starts working great again until next time moving it to other place.)))

2700K @ 4.5 here, paired with a vega 64 uv/oc, still rock @1440p... Good old stuff !

I just changed the stock cpu fan to a Noctua NH-U9S. Overclocked 2600k to 4,5. Auto on all settings so far, since i'm lazy and it works. Max cpu temp was 72c from what i saw when running cemu. Mario Kart 8 lagged with stock cpu/intel fan and a radeon r9 280 3Gb's graphics card, average 40.1fps. Overclocked it, lagged less but still i had a average fps of 46.4, low settings on everything in the emulator, 720p. Changed the graphics card to gtx 970 4gbs and wooow ultra settings on everything 1080p 58-60fps all the time. Incredible! Couldn't believe it. I was expecting just a little more fps, just wow. The clocking added 5-6fps and then the graphics card the icing on the cake! Now it's possible to game with friends without getting complaints about the resolution looking bad. lol

Still there in my main rig after all these years doing a sterling job with no overclocking......paired with an RX 580 and 16gb eam 500 gb ssd

It still holds up, been playing with a heavily OCed 2600k/R9 Fury combo and feel like I almost never bottlenecks.

2600k on an Asrock fatality z68 oc at 4.2 with a 1080ti (230 quid off ebay) , still doing fine on the games i play ESO FF14 , been looking into a full rebuild system starting to slow boot and generally slow but its been a great fookin run lol .

i7 2600k voltage lock 1.34v 4.527 mhz cooler gammax 400 v2 extreme stresstest 68C maximum! ddr3 kingston hyperx fury 1866 32gb! OC to 2133 but + bclk 102.9 = 2195MHZ ram, 1.6375v. CL10-12-12-32 CR2T I think I squeezed the maximum out of my computer assembly👆 with such cooling😁 I use this build in conjunction with RTX 3070 TI. In single projects, the loading of the video card is 100%, multiplayer project fps shooter - warzone and so... a maximum of 60-70%, in rare cases 80%= just comfort fps 60-75+ 2k resolution, high or ultra settings! if you have 2k monitor - max 75 MHZ - its build👆 must have😅

Muddling through Fallout 4 VR with a Strix 1070 locked @45 FPS with Oculus Tray Tool. No overclocks yet till I figure out some cooling issues

I've been using this CPU for the last 10years. Never had any issues even playing games except now with New World where even overclocked at 4.2Ghz it struggles tons. Next year will likely be the time to change with pcie5, ddr5, usb4 :)