Its going for $100 less than the 2600k at some vendors recently.Originally Posted by I800C0LLECT
In terms of synthetics, Zambezi won't give you anything. Real world performance you won't notice that it's not the cream of the crop.
Personally, I'd stay away from it. Matt had it right, 2500k Intel and overclock it to 4.5ghz
Memory timing doesn't matter much because so much latency is introduced with DDR3 that unless you can get a CAS 7 or lower it won't really benefit much unless you run the same benchmark 10 times in a row. At that point, who cares?
There have been people crankin' up the speed and hittin' 5ghz with air cooling.
This war will rage on. I can play crysis at full specs with my current rig at 2 years old and I can play 90% high specs on Crysis 2 just fine. Its all a brainwash to make us want something.
Like I said software has not been utilized for more then 4 cores as of lately
