Review on Ultimate Performance: Intel Core i7-2600 Quad-Core Processor with 8MB Cache and 3.4GHz Speed by Vn Ti Dng ᠌

Name: Ultimate Performance: Intel Core i7-2600 Quad-Core Processor with 8MB Cache and 3.4GHz Speed
Item: Ultimate Performance: Intel Core i7-2600 Quad-Core Processor with 8MB Cache and 3.4GHz Speed
Rating: 5

October 21, 2022

Fits the description completely, very satisfying.

IMHO, for those who just need a powerful CPU for games, it's better to take 2500 or 2400. It's more than enough, and the rest of the money is better spent on a more powerful video card.
But for those who need the maximum power of all computing cores, for example, for rendering and working in three-dimensional packages - the very basin. Only 2600K is cooler, but there you have to bother with overclocking and installing high-quality cooling.)

Pros

well, so I became the happy owner of this 32-nanometer miracle)) When it was handed over, I was surprised by its size. He's really small. Just before that I had a Phenom x4 945, there is an order of magnitude more pebble)) Well, in order: 1. TDP 95 W, with the Scythe Ninja 3 cooler, idle temperature is 29-33 degrees, at full load - 45 maximum. In acceleration - the maximum temperature rose to 55-56. But this despite the fact that the temperature in the room is 24-25 somewhere. 2. Chases, without problems, up to 4.2 GHz. In the BIOS, you can set a multiplier of 4.2, in fact, the maximum multiplier for this processor. 3. 4 physical. cores, 8 virtual. It's a pleasure to watch how 8 bucket squares run during rendering :)

Cons

The disadvantage is Intel's policy that with the release of each new series of processors, the socket is changed. So in 2022 they promise to start producing processors on a different socket . Some kind of leapfrog. And each time for a new socket, very expensive motherboards at first. And then there was an unfortunate error with SATA-II ports in the first revisions of mothers . In general, if you currently have a processor on socket 1156, it’s better not to rush to upgrade for now. Well, the main drawback of the 2600 model, without the K index, is the blocked multiplier. But even with this, the percentage is chasing up to 4 GHz, which is not bad considering its nominal frequency of 3.4 GHz.