CORRECTION: at 9:07 the 1% low for the i5 12400F system should be 94, NOT 65. Sorry for any confusion.

While older i7s are pretty good for budget gaming, the fact that they hold the i7 name definitely holds them back. People price them too high because they're i7-branded

@jhfgjtjutyiuod

7 ай бұрын

SandyBridge back in the day did add a lot of modern instructions and IPC performance but what made it special was the ability of the K processors to overclock to 4+ Ghz with ease. If someone could work out a way to unlock 2600 processors to 2600K processors their popularity (and performance) would explode.

@SweetTea2024

5 күн бұрын

I bought one for less than $20

Funny because I am using the i7-2600 as my daily driver this week while I test extreme budget options. Mine was free in a bundle of office computers. Keep in mind my previous daily driver was an I5 3rd gen, and I haven't noticed a significant difference. But, if you consider the price (hardly anything at this point), it is still respectable in 2024.

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

To be fair on this CPU, for lightweight games with a GPU like an RX 570 or something. It isn't bad at all. The problem is: Haswell CPUs are literally £5 more here in the UK.

@justinh6477

5 ай бұрын

I paid $5 for a 2600 and 8gb of ram last week on craigslist. Last night my friend gave me his dad's old PC that was "dead", an XPS with a 4790/32gb of ram and a GTX 970 in it. I just had to replace the power supply. I love how old tech is dirt cheap but totally usable still....at least to me and a select few. @@ProYamYamPC

@lazygamerzo

2 ай бұрын

Is there any stutter in games like rdr2 assassins creed Odyssey

I have a PC i built in 2010 with an i7-2600K. Using a Noctua cooler and a 1200 watt Corsair psu, i was able to overclock to 4.4GHz. It runs more than fine today!

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

That's what matters mate. If you're happy, why change anything! Have fun gaming🙌

Good job on the video. It's amazing that the 2600 is still passable today, although not recommended to buy one at all. But, if you have one you can still at least somewhat game on it, which is nice to see.

Great vid. My niece had the i7 2600. Upgraded to the i7 3770 for a net cost of about £20 and it was a drop-in replacement. This was a noticeable upgrade.

@jedteo1469

7 ай бұрын

actually you can go for E3-1230v2(its basically server version i7-3770 but without igpu and it can be used on normal motherboard such as h61 b75 and z77 ) but since you have already upgraded then its fine

@notmyfaultthisishappening3795

5 ай бұрын

@@jedteo1469I used this CPU as my daily for 8 years, it was fantastic for the money

Nice video man! Btw can you make a video about the i5 4th gen

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed! And you're in luck as I've made a video on the 4460 kzread.info/dash/bejne/p2Wss7tpec-ZY6g.html

i love the frist consumer cpu to feature AVX, 2:13, haha no worries mate small mistake happens to the best of us, also ive noticed that your videos are a bit quiet as of late. Anyway good video cheers

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, it totally got past me when I was doing my final look at it😅 I've been playing around with my mic settings so I'll up my gain next time around mate. Cheers for the feedback!

Would love to see tester who actually optimizes games' setting according an old CPU tested. Like in Cyberpunk you mentioned, low crowd density has effect on CPU performance (and it's not important setting like downgrading game play). Would appreciate similar settings for other games when testing Sandy, Ivy, Haswell, Skylake etc.

My current daily driver laptop runs a i7 2600 or to be precise its mobile version, called i7-2600 HQ wich works fine for me under Linux Mint.

I still have it in my pc when I installed it years ago

You can test with cinebench r23 to see how much tdp it uses when the manufacturer says 95W . I'm using it with the H61

Late to the party here but sandy and ivy have semi locked multiplyers. You can raise every turbo step by 4. I did that + a 103 5 baseclock to get my 2600 to 4ghz all core. 11% clock increase from the multiplyer 3.5 on top of that for a 14% clock increase from a locked chip :) Also sandybridge chip sets had a series between b and z the p series. with the core multiplyer unlocked but no sli support (x8/x8 pci-e)

what are the avx2 avx512 games and are there any fixes to bypass them?

I was actually considering the i7 2600 because its so cheap and i dont play very demanding games. thanks for this vid

@xAnAngelOfDeathx

2 ай бұрын

I am still using an i7 2600 today and I play demanding games.

I had have hate love relationship with my 2600k and socket 1155, First error 1 bought used hardware in 2015, not sure if it is the cpu or motherboard, but dual channel overall did not work from the start, for the most part i am happy with my 2600k, but still i do want new hardware again at least a new cpu+ram+board not sure if i should buy used after the experience with the used 2600k stuff.

My i5 2500K is still running. But recently upgraded to a new PC with ryzen 5600

SandyBridge's special sauce back in the day other than AVX instructions was that you could easily overclock the K version to 4+ Ghz, where it really shone. You can't do that with the locked non K version reviewed here. Also SandyBridge CPU's are stuck on PCIe 2 whereas IvyBridge can do PCIe 3 which can make a difference for GPU's. Before I gave the whole setup away to a friend still tinkering away with a core2duo and a K7 Athlon 2400+ I had a GTX 1080 in my i7 2600K which will handily outperform the Vega card this review used and I used DXVK wherever possible also. I agree Haswell is better for gaming nowadays, but a 2600 non K like reviewed will make quite a potent non gaming desktop pc for casual users.

Interesting video. The i7 2600 might be dead but the Xeons from that era are still a good cheap option. I am writing this on a T3600 Workstation with an e5-2665. Honestly in alot of programs it feels snappier than my i5 8400 that crapped out on my a couple weeks ago.

If you have a weak processor type i3 2100 and i5 2500 on this motherboard. Then you can install intel E3 Xeon 1270 or (V2) It's a bit cheaper than the i7 2600. It gives the same performance in games. Lower power consumption. Due to the lack of a graphics core inside the processor. You will still use it with your Nvidia and AMD discrete graphics card. The main thing is to look at the specification of your motherboard. Does it support Xeon 1270 V2 processor. Regular Xeon 1270 is supported everywhere. It happens that you need to update the BIOS on motherboard. Just in case when you change your processor

thanks mate. turns out i got the wrong one. yo info helped tho but. x

The Vega 56 only comes in 8GB VRAM capacity. Utilizing the software feature HBCC for 16GB doesn't do anything meaningful.

AVX back in 2011, not really. Nothing really used AVX back at that time. The reason Sandy Bridge was a leap ahead over Nehalem/westmere is the Ring Bus..... which is the same reason Zen 2 could not beat those Skylake rehashes like the 9900k in gaming. This basically reduced L3 cache latency further. However, AVX is the reason a Sandy Bridge 4c/8t CPU is still hanging in there today. On the other hand Intel did increase the Registers to accommodate AVX, which helped all around.

i have one in my old alienware and i can tell you with confidence. you can with an astrix. rtx 2060 yawns the whole time and thing don't load correctly in most modern games.

loooool i just upgraded my optiplex 790 to this i7 2600 a week ago from i5 2500

@pomax8372

7 ай бұрын

and im upgrading from 1050ti to 1060 6gb next

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

That will be huge. The extra threads of the i7 goes a long way in terms of gaming performance. The extra 2MB of L3 cache is a nice bonus too!

still using the 2600k at 4.9ghz with a 1070

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

Nice, how’s it gaming?

@andrewmcewan9145

7 ай бұрын

To sneak an answer in here, Based on my experience with a i7 3820 @4.3 on a 1070 better than you expect but you need to tweak for 60bfps 1080p on some current games, Uncharted collection won't launch. The lack of avx2 hurts.

@cuzsleepisthecousinofdeath

7 ай бұрын

I hope you overclocked the RAM and tightened its timings Otherwise your CPU's starving. What's the temps and your cooler are?

@john-ek9gv

7 ай бұрын

very good still, 1440p mixed settings for 50-60fps and online games 1440p low 100+@@ProYamYamPC

@john-ek9gv

7 ай бұрын

@@cuzsleepisthecousinofdeath on 1600mhz timings quite low, cpus at around 70 ish with hyper 212 evo

Hello , is it possible to instal windows 10 on this procesor? I have same one but when I installed win 10 blue screen pops out...

@Anjo.daGuerra

26 күн бұрын

Uso windows 10 nele sem problema

4:20 damn

This just shows how far CPU tech has advanced over the years. The old and perhaps obsolete i7 is only getting half of what the new i5 can get for almost all the games you've tested LOL. It might have been the high end back in 2011, but it is surely pretty much a potato 13 years later. It also has a 95W TDP, which means a space heater for a potato-like performance. But it's still good enough for watching KZread videos (provided that you have a dedicated GPU that can do VP9 decoding), Microsoft Office, music streaming, and general web browing. I'd like to see how good an i7-6700 non-K can do in today's games.

@ProYamYamPC

5 ай бұрын

I am looking to get into slightly newer CPUs (Intel 6th gen + and amd Ryzen 1000+). Stay tuned, I'll see what I can do!

I just saw a prebuilt pc with an rtx 3060 and a 2nd gen i7 . I assume it was this processor

@Anjo.daGuerra

26 күн бұрын

Tenho um i7 2600, com Uma R7 260x, mas vou testar com a minha Rx5600xt depois para ver o que dá 😂.

On paper the I72600 looks better but performance wise for gaming the I52400 performs much better for whatever reason... That's been my experience.

The issue is not only the CPU but also the DDR3 RAM..

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

Not so much. Haswell i7s and Xeons still perform well. Similar single thread performance to Zen 1 CPUs

I see you play games and it only uses 55W . It is much lower than the recommended 95W

@ricardog.s2505

4 ай бұрын

95W and TDP in general means what the maximun wattage the CPU should use under full load, you can test it yourself with a benchmark or something really demanding that requires 100% of the CPU, which is why the i7 2600 didn't reach the 95W

Yowm from dudley ay me mon? subbed.

wth does 1% low mean ? and why is that important ...i need to know these things lol

@ProYamYamPC

4 ай бұрын

The 1% lows are an indicator of how consistent the frame rate is. Essentially, the closer the 1% low to the average frame rate, the better. As this means the gaming experience is going to be smoother

My i7 2600 was bottlenecking to hd 7790😂

If you get more stable framerates on Cyberpunk 2077 relative to Fortnite that means Epic ruined that game.

2:14 first*

@ProYamYamPC

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I missed that😅

test i7-2600k and come back say that again :) xaxaxaxax

5:30 TALK ABOUT PEOPLE THAT DONT KNOW SHIT 140 FPS XD