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What processor do you use?

What processor do you use?

  • Intel 8th Gen (Coffee Lake)

    Votes: 3,042 11.7%
  • Intel 7th Gen (Kaby Lake)

    Votes: 1,717 6.6%
  • Intel 6th Gen (Skylake)

    Votes: 2,633 10.1%
  • Intel 4th Gen (Haswell)

    Votes: 4,880 18.7%
  • Intel 3rd & 2nd Gen (IVB & SB)

    Votes: 4,408 16.9%
  • AMD Ryzen Gen 2

    Votes: 2,289 8.8%
  • AMD Ryzen

    Votes: 3,975 15.3%
  • AMD Threadripper

    Votes: 605 2.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 2,495 9.6%

  • Total voters
    26,044
  • Poll closed .

hzlph

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Rocking an i7 3615QM, an i7-950, and looking forward con buying an Core 2 Quad Q6600, and a Ryzen 7 2700X
 
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8350 @ 4.6ghz going strong. Waiting on that 8c/16t i7
 
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I've got a i5 2400s mac, a i5-6600k 4.5ghz and a x5650 at 4.01ghz
 

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4770k @ 4.2(undervolted), fine for my needs, till I can afford ryzen 2 or maybe Intel's 8core models.
Missus my old i5 4460 :)
 
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Poll is missing FX series. I have fx-6300, had fx-8320. Upgrading soon to ryzen 7 2700x.
 
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Still using a 3570K@4.2GHz undervolted. This machine will run until the heat death of the universe at this rate.

I am really tempted to rebuild the system with ryzen 2000 and a 1080ti to get that NVMe boot capability, but the cost is off-putting.
 
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No love for Broadwell-e ^_^

Looking forward to a new build next year, AMD looking like a real option :eek:
 
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Broadwell doesn't get enough respect. It was actually a very good and efficient architecture.

I never had one of them. I skipped it due to crappy finances at the time.
 
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Wow, more than 1/3 of us are still using chips which existed 5 years ago. Indicative of CPU winning the race against software for a lot of us?
I have a xeon 1680v3 and 1080ti in my main desktop with plp 20/30/20 60hz. It is a workstation primarily and gaming secondary, I bought a 1700 rig overclocked and played with it and never switched...because at my resolution... wouldn't change a thing.

I have enough... and as much as I enjoy building new rigs... it's an odd place to be. Looks like I need to update my sig/specs... as you can see I side/downgraded from 2p lol.
 

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Benchmark Scores It runs Crysis remastered at 4K
Not by numbers. 5000 (5820K) series is 5th generation. What Intel actually uses inside is another thing because HEDT is alwas lagging behind mainstream architecturaly.
It's still Haswell, even tho it's 5000-series. At least I think that my 5820K is 4th gen.

And yeah, HEDT is always "late".

Broadwell-E is my next CPU.
 
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Memory 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Dual Channel Corsair Vengeance LPX
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Proud to own a 8750H !
 
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It's still Haswell, even tho it's 5000-series. At least I think that my 5820K is 4th gen.

And yeah, HEDT is always "late".

Broadwell-E is my next CPU.

I'm not so sure I'm gonna upgrade this one. 6800K or 6850K are just clock bumps and it's questionable whether they'll clock to 4.5GHz (or higher) with such ease as 5820K does. I mean, 4.5GHz at 1.15V is like best possible OC you can get. It's quite high and at stupid low voltage. Many people need to use 1.25 or 1.3 to reach such clocks. If AMD continues to score so well with next generations of Ryzen/Threadripper CPU's in a distant future, I'll probably go with AMD entirely. X99 has no future anymore anyway. But it should last me for quite some time.
 
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my 3930k still makes me happy
 
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Processor Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9Ghz (8C/16T)
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Desktop: i5 3570K
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Processor i7 6820HK @ 4.0 GHz
Motherboard OEM Clevo P650rs-g
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Video Card(s) GTX 1070
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i5 680 dual core in my old dell desktop. i7 6820hk @4.0 in my laptop
 
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i3-8350k @ 5Gigaherz
 
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Main rig is a intel C4004 cpu...just kidding. Main rig is my brain:p

Alright with out joking.
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The little one (Asus vovostick ts10) is a intel atom x5 z8350.
 
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4790k looking for an upgrade once intel gets their 8 core mainstream stuff out and the prices on quad/hex drop some more.
It'll be time for ryzen 2 and bye bye at the thought of buying intel garbage.
 

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I'm not so sure I'm gonna upgrade this one. 6800K or 6850K are just clock bumps and it's questionable whether they'll clock to 4.5GHz (or higher) with such ease as 5820K does. I mean, 4.5GHz at 1.15V is like best possible OC you can get. It's quite high and at stupid low voltage. Many people need to use 1.25 or 1.3 to reach such clocks. If AMD continues to score so well with next generations of Ryzen/Threadripper CPU's in a distant future, I'll probably go with AMD entirely. X99 has no future anymore anyway. But it should last me for quite some time.
What I've heard, BW-E is still one of the best gaming CPUs. I've been thinking about 6850K or 6900K.

I'm kicking with 1.34V, 1.15V for 4.5GHz is a damn golden sample!
 
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What's funny though, it won't do 4.6 GHz no matter what. I can give it 1.2V, 1.25V, 1.3V, it will lock up during RealBench H.264 testing. I got it stable once at 4.6 with 1.25V but it seems random. Sometimes it is stable and locks up in later loops out of 10 that I always do or it works this time, but after reboot, it won't be next time. Weird. It also depends on voltage settings. If I set a fixed voltage it'll work. With Adaptive, it just keeps on locking up. I kinda don't want to run CPU at 1.25V 24/7 when it can clock down and volt down to 0.8-0.9V when running at lowest non-load clock.
 
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Upgrade from i5-6500 @ 5Ghz to 8700K @ 5Ghz. Made a huge mistake by changing motherboard since my old Z170 OC Formula is fully compatible with 8700K (the other board is it's brother Z170M OCF).
 
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3770K @ 4.8GHz 24/7. No plan to upgrade in the next 2-3 years minimum. Might get me another 5+ years down the line. CPU power is overrated. As in you don't really "need" as much as most people think you do.
 
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Processor 4670K@4.4GHz
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Memory 2x8GB+2x4GB @2400GHz
Video Card(s) XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 1425MHz OC+, 8GB
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4670K@4.2 1.1235V and i have also X5650@4GHz but now using mainly 4670 because of usb 3.0, sata 3 and 40-50% faster single core for gaming :p
 
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