Sandy Bridge appreciation thread

Who is still running Sand Bridge?

Retarded people.

Me, and it runs just fine.

/thread

What makes you say that?

2500k ftw

Fuckin rekt

>B-but mom, electricity bill is not that high at all!

>$20 a year
>alot

>alot
a lot

Even older, Nehalem master race

Do you live in Germany? Even then you would need to be running a server farm using Pentium 4 shit boxes 24/7 to have to complain about electricity costs

If I was worried about power consumption, I wouldn't be using a desktop let alone an unlocked CPU.

It really isn't

>B-but mom, if you buy me a Skylake processor, I'll pay you back in electricity bill savings over the next 50 years

This overclock likely sets it above a stock i5-6600. Nice job.

>sandy bridge

more like sandy vag

Nehelam here. I think the ram speed is lacking these days though, lack of sata3 hurts a bit as well.

The troll in him, made him say it.

Not there yet, but maybe someday

If you really need SATA3 just get a PCIe to SATA card. They're not very big or expensive.

Last PCIe slot is occupied by a usb3 card (mobo is mostly PCI . I still get the latency boosts from SSD so it's not like I really need it badly.

Upgraded to skylake last year and regret it. Haven't really done anything with my computer that my 2500k would have bottlenecked me.

I have a T520, I would have upgraded if Lenovo wouldnt have fucked their keyboards.

Its still a perfectly capable in todays world.

This is the only logical answer.

Riding my 3930k till the day it dies

Sandy bridge doesnt support usb 3.0 and PCIE 3.0

Any idea on the performance loss ? Does backward compatibiloty really help ? Genuinely curious here ?

Damn, that really sucks. But

>dat 4K random read tho

must be nice.

Bloomfield.

i7-920 masterace.

3470 reporting in

USB 3.0 flash drives and pocket hard drives I have are immensely faster than older 2.0 ones I have.

IIRC, PCIE 3.0 is backwards compatible but dont even max out the bandwidth of older slots.

2500k reporting.

Regretted buying it at the time, but that thing will likely last me 10 years. I mean it's already 1/2 of that.

You are quite literally a fucking moron.

$10 a month is closer

Yea foreal, I dont know what that idiot is talking about?

nehalem desu

3930k
Still best CPU

Please tell me why ?

1155 sockets support USB 3. They also support PCIe 3.0 if you have an Ivy Bridge CPU installed.

>not LGA1366

Please kill yourself.

Then you definitly are a dumb fuck.
I wrote Sandy Bridge! Not 1155! I know ivy bridge support it. But sandy bridge 2500k/2600k doesnt natively do.

>Learn to read senpai

my T420 is

this
my T420 is sandy bridge

Desktop is Haswell-E

My media PC is running a Sandy Bridge i5-2500K.

My desktop is running an Ivy Bridge i7-3770K.

I'll probably upgrade both once Cannonlake is available.

$ grep -m1 2500K /proc/cpuinfo && lspci | grep -m1 EJ168
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
07:00.0 USB controller: Etron Technology, Inc. EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 01)
PCIe 3.0 is overrated

>PCIe 3.0 is overrated
Your rig doesn't support it, eh?

3930K reporting in

post clocks

Skylake is a meme. Not upgrading till those 8 core Zen cpus get released.

i5 2500k oc'd to 4.20 and 560 ti since 2011 and still going strong

i7-3960X reporting. Never even OC'd it.

I'm still using my 2500k and loving it. I've been planning to OC it soon but I'm rather tech illiterate so I might fuck it up.

there's a fuckload of guides out there to read up on it before you go fucking with stuff

load some up on your phone or laptop (or whatever you've got) before you start

How do they fit that giant chip into that tiny processor?

Nothing can fill those lanes

Time Lord technology

Compression.

i7-3970X proud user reporting in at 4.8Ghz.

One day I will finish that phase change cooler, and will make it to 5.2Ghz even if I kill it.

...

noice, i'm all about big clocks senpai

Still rocking my i5-2500k @ 4.4

no urge to upgrade

still rocking a 670 gtx (oc'd)

slight urge to upgrade but still runs like a champ

Lossy

5 BILLION cycles per second. Nice.

My 2500k is still running strong.