Anyone looking for "must" buy this processor a future-proof processor with an unbeatable P / L ratio.
Important to me research was a silent system determine together, the orderly has power, so AMD was not an option because lt. Processors are getting warmer already innately (the warmer, the more you have the CPU cooler under load cool = volume) as Intel and thereby provide less power (despite 6/8 cores AMD against Intel 4 nuclei, but a bit cheaper), a certain standard you want to achieve even if one buys a new system, so the small fee I took into account.
Its big brother i7-2600K and the new Ivy Bridge CPUs are much better, but !! correspondingly expensive. There is plenty of power bar charts of processors online and you can quickly detect if a the few% performance are worth paying extra and if you really need a better CPU for its own needs?!?
There is little more to say on this processor. Everything runs smoothly and fast, I am very happy, especially because I switched from Mac to Windows and also images in Lightroom editing (I was afraid of the waiting times that I know etc from Windows times, now I see no difference anymore). Of course, the overall performance for games, etc. depends on RAM and GPU.
Is cooled throughout by a BeQuiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1 and desktop operating I come to 28-30 ° C and under load games about 45 ° C (BF3, details as high as I could, until I never got around to acceptable Fraps values below 40 FPS).
I wish you much fun with this CPU!
To my system:
CPU: i5-2500K
Mainboard: MSI P67A-GD53 (B3)
RAM: Corsair 8GB DDR3 DIMM kit XMS3
CPU: EVGA GeForce GTX550 Ti FPB
Case: Antec Three Hundred Two
PSU: be quiet! Pure Power L7 530 W
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1
SSD: 64GB Crucial CT064M4SSD2
